The Road To Lichfield
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2017
Summary
The Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively, available for the first time as a Penguin Essential.
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.
Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield is a subtle exploration of memory and iden…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241981405 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241981409 |
| Author: | Penelope Lively |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 111mm x 181mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Penelope Lively
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:
- 1977: The Road to Lichfield
- 1984: According to Mark
She won the Booker Prize in 1987 for Moon Tiger.
Her other notable books include:
- Going Back
- Judgement Day
- Next to Nature, Art
- Perfect Happiness
- Passing On (shortlisted for the 1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award)
- City of the Mind
- Cleopatra’s Sister
- Heat Wave
- Beyond the Blue Mountains (short story collection)
- Oleander, Jacaranda (memoir)
- Spiderweb
- A House Unlocked (autobiographical work)
- The Photograph
- Making It Up
- Consequences
- Family Album (shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award)
- How It All Began
Lively has also written radio and television scripts and has presented 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.
She was appointed CBE in 2001 and DBE in 2012.
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