To have found Penelope Lively's 2016 book of stories in a recycling bin is another one of those fortunate reading discoveries that come from poking around, like how stumbling on Margaret Drabble's The Millstone in a dusty bookstore in Maine opened me to her incisive mind and winning prose. In these stories, Lively, who is 84, demonstrates a penetrating understanding of human nature and a flair for the dramatic. Such is the intensity of some of them that they provoke a powerful physical response.
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