Penelope Lively





Penelope Lively

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March 17, 1933 in Cairo, Egypt

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Penelope Lively CBE (born March 17, 1933) is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987.

Born in Cairo in 1933, she spent her early childhood in Egypt, before being sent to boarding school in England at the age of twelve. She read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, and settled in England.



Average rating: 3.45 · 8,106 ratings · 1,460 reviews · 78 distinct works
Moon Tiger
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,711 ratings — published 1987 — 24 editions
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The Photograph
3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 1,647 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions
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How it All Began
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 857 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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Consequences
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions
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Family Album
3.16 of 5 stars 3.16 avg rating — 848 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions
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Making it Up
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 220 ratings10 editions
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Heat Wave
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1973 — 17 editions
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Passing On
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions
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The Road to Lichfield
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 126 ratings8 editions
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“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”
Penelope Lively

“I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun.”
Penelope Lively, Consequences

“And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.”
Penelope Lively, Consequences

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