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How can he make sense of the world when he can’t even make sense of himself? Joe is not like other boys. At 14 he is obsessed with birds and the weather – but to this sensitive and gentle young man, other people are a mystery. When Joe is s… more

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is… more

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 W… more

Man Booker Prize–winning novelist Penelope Lively’s latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked “DON’T O… more

In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as she delves into the minutiae of her characters’ lives. Whether she writes about a widow on a visit to Russi… more

Penelope Lively is one of England’s greatest living writers, whom The New York Times Book Review has called “blessed with the gift of being able to render matters of great import with a breath, a barely audible sigh, a touch. The result is … more

Penelope Lively is one of England’s greatest living writers. In City of the Mind, Matthew Halland is an architect intimately involved with the new face of London, while haunted by the destruction and loss in its history. Matthew has a rich … more

In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of a forty-year-old woman, Anne Linton, who unexpectedly learns that her father had a mistress. With this new knowledge, Linto… more

WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby’s interviews with the world’s greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre’s International Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, w… more

Lively retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, telling of the wanderings of Ulysses and his adventures with the giant Cyclops and the enchantress Circe as he makes his way home to his beloved Ithaca. There, after slaying the suitors who have been woo… more

In his introduction to this issue of Recommended Reading, Peter Blackstock the editor at Grove/Atlantic who first discovered “Fobbit” writes that the author’s “pitch was intriguing: a novel of the Iraq war, but not a solemn, intense war nov… more

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: -, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Veranstaltung: Concepts & Methodologies - Anglistik/Nordamerikanistik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Moon Tiger, a novel writ… more

In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object,… more

Vinnie Miner, 54-year-old Anglophile professor, is in London on a six-month foundation grant. So is her young colleague, Fred Turner. Vinnie is plain and resignedly self-reliant; Fred is arrestingly handsome and moping after a breakup with … more

»Was mich interessiert, ist das Gedächtnis, die Art und Weise, wie Menschen und Landschaften aus Erinnerungen zusammengesetzt sind.« Penelope LivelyNach dem Tod seiner bildschönen Frau findet Glyn ein altes Photo von ihr, auf dem sie mit ei… more

Moon Tiger Study Guide consists of approx. 54 pages of summaries and analysis on Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively.This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes,… more

Alles beginnt 1935 auf einer Bank im St. James’s Park. Hier trifft die junge Lorna den Künstler Matt. Die beiden werden ein Paar, obwohl ihre Familie diese Verbindung missbilligt. Auch ihre Tochter Molly und die Enkelin Ruth werden ungewöhn… more

Study notes on The Darkness Out There by Penelope Lively, part of the GCSE Anthology: Sunlight on the Grass. A detailed examination of language, themes, plot and characters.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Paderborn, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As history is inevitably constructed, fa… more

The Minotaur - a thrilling novel from the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunat… more