If I Were You Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (1992) Penelope Lively explores the nature

Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of a forty-year-old woman

It's on everyone's bookshelves

intense affair in postwar Hiroshima

that Jacques Derrida's work merits serious attention

what would we want as our legacy

If I Were You Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (1992) Penelope Lively explores the natureNatasha was always the more intelligent and Sophie the more beautiful, but it never came between them until now. Suddenly the tiny, niggling, inescapable fact of their envy for each other's life is trying to surface and a number of casualties are getting caught in the crossfire. Is a fading love worth clinging to at all costs?