Spiderweb by Penelope Lively - ISBN: 9780140256949
Paperback
Retired anthropologist finds unsettling truths tangled in a Somerset web.

Spiderweb

$43.54

  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    4 November 1999

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Summary

Stella Brentwood, retired anthropologist, has studied social systems around the world, but she finds life in rural Somerset, to which she has retired, as strange and absorbing as any she has met. She re-explores old friendships, but it is her neighbour Karen Hiscox, a fiery and aggressive woman governing her husband and sons with menacing force, who is the most unsettling presence in her new life.

SPIDERWEB is an intricate mesh of letters, journal entries, classified adverts and news …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140256949
ISBN-10:0140256946
Author:Penelope Lively
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:4 November 1999
Weight:200g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 15mm
About The Author

Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children. Moon Tiger won the 1987 Booker Prize. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.

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