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  • A House Unlocked

    by Penelope Lively ...
    This "interesting and perceptive" memoir recalls the familial country house the author's grandparents bought in 1923 ( The Washington Post Book World).The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house, Golsoncott. Long after the house was sold out of the family, she begins to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before ... Read more

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  • Moon Tiger

    by Penelope Lively ...
    "A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past." — The Boston GlobeWinner of the Man Booker PrizeElderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she's carrying out her last ... Read more

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  • Judgment Day

    by Penelope Lively ...
    This "beautiful and brilliant novel" follows an agnostic woman's relationship with a religious village's people and its past (Auberon Waugh).Judgment Day takes us into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a sleepy village enlivened only by sideshows of adultery and gossip. An avowed agnostic, Clare is nonetheless caught up in the restoration of the church, ... Read more

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  • City of the Mind

    by Penelope Lively ...
    A "well crafted . . . fascinating" story of a London architect's struggle for identity in love and career ( Time Out).This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland can't help but contemplate how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his ... Read more

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  • Passing On

    by Penelope Lively ...
    The Man Booker Prize–winning author "charts the efforts of a middle-aged brother and sister to begin a new life after their tyrannical mother's death" ( The New York Times).In Passing On, "the richest and most rewarding of her novels," Penelope Lively applies her distinctive insight and consummate artistry to the story of an abusive and manipulative mother's legacy to her children ( The Washington ... Read more

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  • Family Album

    A Novel

    by Penelope Lively ...
    "In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." —The New York Times Book ReviewAn enjoyable read filled with memorable characters and secrets from Booker Prize winner Penelope LivelyAllersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Photograph

    by Penelope Lively ...
    **"One of Britain's most talented and experienced writers. The closer you look the more mystery you see." --The Times (London)A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, about what can happen when you look too closely into the past**Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dancing Fish and Ammonites

    A Memoir

    by Penelope Lively ...
    The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”Memory and history have been Penelope Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Road to Lichfield

    by Penelope Lively ...
    A Man Booker Prize–shortlisted first novel and a "searing study of the peculiar state of being in love" ( The Sunday Telegraph).In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of forty-year-old Anne Linton, who comes to her father's aid when he is moved into a nursing home in a distant town. As she shares his last weeks, she ... Read more

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  • How It All Began

    A Novel

    by Penelope Lively ...
    A vibrant novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively—a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersectWhen Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell phone message; a posh ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Life in the Garden

    by Penelope Lively ...
    From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, ... Read more

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  • Consequences

    by Penelope Lively ...
    The Booker Prize winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women"One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day" (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women--Lorna, Molly, and Ruth--from World War II-era London to the close of the century. Told in Lively's incomparable prose, this is a powerful story of growth, death, and renewal, as well as a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD