Summary
Beautifully packaged reissue of a Penelope Lively reissue
‘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 is aware of how the past and the present blend. 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140156676 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140156674 |
| Author: | Penelope Lively |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 10000th |
| Release Date: | 30 April 1992 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 130mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
A glorious novel
A glorious novel * Observer *
The descriptions of the London Blitz are achingly real * Sunday Telegraph *
Well crafted, complex, fascinating * Time Out *
Bold and beautiful, often witty, hopeful, enriching * Scotsman *
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively grew up in Egypt but settled in England after the war and took a degree in history at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors. She was married to the late Professor Jack Lively, has a daughter, a son and four grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire and London.
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her novels include Passing On, shortlisted for the 1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, City of the Mind, Cleopatra’s Sister and Heat Wave. Many of her books, including Going Back, which first appeared as a children’s book, and Oleander, Jacaranda, an autobiographical memoir of her childhood days in Egypt, are published in Penguin.
Penelope Lively has also written radio and television scripts and has acted as presenter for a BBC Radio 4 programme on children’s literature. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.
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