Books by penelope lively

"How It All Began" is the wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively. When ...Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter ...

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Claudia Hampton is beautiful, famous, independent, and dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history ... More

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"Family Album" is the sixteenth novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively. Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect ... More

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Aeneas flees from the sacked city of Troy, entrusted by his goddess-mother Venus with a daunting mission: to find a new homeland for his people. Over ... More

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Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, many years ... More

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Mother's funeral is not mourned. Around her grave are her children. Helen and Edward Glover, 52 and 49 respectively, mild and shabby, both of them ... More

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"Consequences" is the fifteenth novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling ... More

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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 ... More

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"Judgment Day" takes readers into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by ... More

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'This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.' In London's ... More

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A novel about an anthropologist who retires to a small Somerset village, where she finds that life is as subtle and elaborate as any she has ... More

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"Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. ... More

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Using memories of her childhood among the privileged expatriate society of Egypt in the 1930s, Penelope Lively provides a slice of autobiography ... More

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Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her ... More

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James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage - with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing - and ... More

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Set in an imaginary country somewhere between Egypt and Libya, this book looks at the choices and lives of two central characters - Howard Beamish, a ... More

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A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, ... More

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The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, as the house ... More

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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, ... More

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As she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives, Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to ... More

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Peter wants to give his grandfather something special for his birthday: something different and unusual. But when the ideal present hatches into ... More

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40 Norham Gardens is a vast, eccentric Victorian house whose rooms are filled with old paper, old clothes and antiquated furniture. The thoughts of ... More

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Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination! A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award, newly republished in the ... More

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People have evacuated the Earth and fled to Mars, leaving behind rubbish and animals. Five animal friends must strike off on a hazardous journey from ... More

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Since being wiped out in the 14th century by the Black Death, the village of Astercote has been overgrown by forest, but its past still haunts the ... More

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