Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively’s diary: My old-age MOT

Plus: The world in a doctor’s surgery, and Somerset’s last great floods

Author Dame Penelope Lively after receiving her Dame Commander medal from the Princess Royal Photo: Getty 
issue 22 February 2014
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