A review by moirastone
City of the Mind by Penelope Lively

4.0

Wondrous and discursive, a whisper of a plot wrapped around the intimate flaneurial voice of a mid-40s London architect. I can forgive it being a bit too neatly drawn together at the end, the consolations of getting to know this man and his very particular view of London are too great. Put me in mind of Teju Cole's Open City, though without that book's horrifying dark heart.

Also: Penelope Lively! Where have she been all my life? Already adding her to my very personal canon, the one I secretly call Wry British Woman Explain the World to Moira Over Tea.