BOOKS by Penelope Lively

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1	Stone diaries more books like this by Carol Shields add to wishlist This novel chronicles the life of a Canadian woman, born in 1905 out of love and tragedy, and follows her life through marriage, motherhood and widowhood as she ages with the century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Moon Tiger more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Claudia Hampton is dying. As memories crowd in, she re-creates the mosiac of her life, her own story enmeshed with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the centre of her life, Tom, her one great love both found and lost in the "mad fairyland" of war-torn Egypt. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Consequences more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Consequences is a three-generation love story that opens on the eve of the Second World War with a chance meeting in St. James's Park, London. Desperately in love, wealthy Lorna and "starving artist" Matt marry, despite her parents' disapproval. The young couple leave London for a cottage in a rural Somerset village, where Matt, Lorna, and baby ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist This is an illustrated adaption of Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid. see all copies from $8.40! new only from $11.93! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ghost of Thomas Kempe more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist A children's book set in the 17th century by Penelope Lively, who is also an acclaimed writer of fiction for adults. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.85! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Judgment Day more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist In a small English village, Clare Paling--a newcomer--feels left out of the life of the community until a series of violent acts involves her in a particularly intimate way. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Photograph more books like this by P Lively add to wishlist Lively is a grande dame of British letters whose novels have attracted readers of Ian McEwan and Iris Murdoch--as well as those enthralled by her insight into relationships and family. "The Photograph" brings her talents into a whole new page-turning realm, and is Lively at her very best, the dazzling and intriguing climax to all she has written ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The road to Lichfield more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Making It Up more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Penelope Lively surveys her own life in these eight stories, and speculates about what might have happened had she taken a different turn. The stories are fiction--their protagonists are not Lively herself and their situations are invented--but as she explains in a gloss attached to each one, there is always a link to her own experience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist This memoir from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning writer, Penelope Lively details her childhood as an English girl in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Captured in Lively's fine prose are a visit to a fellaheen village, summers on the beach at Alexandria, and a harrowing sojourn in Palestine during wartime. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.90! \| first editions
11 view cover	Treasures of time more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Hugh Paxton was a very important archaeologist and highly influential man. So important that the BBC have decided to make a documentary on his life, focusing on the dig that made him famous. The trouble with digging around in the past, though, is that it disturbs the present as well. Hugh's beautiful, flighty widow Laura, her prickly daughter Kate ... see all copies from $2.53! first editions
12 view cover	Pack of Cards more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Lively's story collection is set in England during the Thatcher years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Heat Wave: A Novel more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Fifty-five years old and divorced, Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage community outside London. Her daughter, Teresa, is nearby, with her cultural critic husband, Maurice, and their toddler, Luke. Maurice becomes obsessed with the girlfriend of his editor; Teresa is oblivious to this, but Pauline sees it clearly and aches for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| first editions
14	Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived: A Memoir more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist This memoir from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning writer, Penelope Lively details her childhood as an English girl in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Captured in Lively's fine prose are a visit to a fellaheen village, summers on the beach at Alexandria, and a harrowing sojourn in Palestine during wartime. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Spiderweb more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Stella Brentwood, a retired anthropologist famous for her detachment from life, retires to rural Somerset and finds herself getting involved in spite of herself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A House Unlocked more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist In presenting this tour of the English country house purchased by her family in the 1920s, the esteemed novelist Penelope Lively chronicles a history much larger than merely that of the family inhabiting it. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Goldilocks and the Three Bears more books like this by Debi Gliori, Penelope Lively add to wishlist Goldilocks is walking through the woods when she comes across a cottage. She lets herself in to explore, and causes chaos. Will the three bears come home and find her? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	City of the Mind more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is constantly aware of the past and the present blending together. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz. But Matthew is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Perfect happiness more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her own loss, until, shocked into feeling by the revelations and sufferings of others, she is drawn into the sunlight of new hope. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Cleopatra's Sister: A Novel more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Paleontologist Howard Beamish is on a mission to Nairobi when his plane must land in the country of Callimbria. Journalist Lucy Faulkner is on the same flight. In Callimbria, they come to see how their lives were brought together, how fate played its role in their love, and how precarious their well-thought-out lives really are. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Heat Wave more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Pauline is filled with dread at the passion that Teresa has for Maurice. During the long, hot summer, she remembers the way that her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her youth, and she is determined to prevent the same happening to her daughter - at any cost. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	House in Norham Gardens more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist 40 Norham Gardens is a vast, eccentric Victorian house whose rooms are filled with old paper, old clothes and antiquated furniture. The thoughts of people both past and present mingle together. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Going back more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist World War II turns the privileged lives of Jane and Edward upside down. Left in the care of servants, they suddenly experience a whole new world - land-girls and concientious objectors. But their enchanted life is shattered when Edward is sent away to school. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Mythical Quest: In Pursuit of Immortality: Tales of Glory, Love, and Grace more books like this by Rosalind Kerven, Penelope Lively (Introduction by) add to wishlist Penelope Lively writes the introduction to this collection of tales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| first editions
25	Pack of Cards and Other Stories more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist Lively's story collection is set in England during the Thatcher years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.32! \| first editions \| SVS

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