• interview with Penelope Lively
• the presence of the past
• memory
• time
• metafiction
• postmodernism
• realism
• Penelope Lively

The present work deals with the production of the contemporary British novelist Penelope Lively. The aim is that of tracing an outline of the author and her several novels through a problematizing approach. Features both of the novelist and her works will be discussed against some literary theories in order to foreground contemporary issues about fiction writing.