Ammonites and Leaping FishNow with a new chapter, On Being Ninetya memoir of ageing, memory, and time, written by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers at the age of eighty. 'The twentieth century shook the worldit sobers me to have been one of those to see it through.' In this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us.