Penelope Lively





Penelope Lively

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in Cairo, Egypt
March 17, 1933

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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: 3.52 · 13,161 ratings · 2,148 reviews · 81 distinct works · Similar authors
Moon Tiger
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,963 ratings — published 1987 — 27 editions
How It All Began
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 2,276 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions
The Photograph
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 2,208 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions
Consequences
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 974 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions
Family Album
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1973 — 21 editions
Heat Wave
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
Making it Up
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
Passing On
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions
The Road to Lichfield
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1977 — 8 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.”
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“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.”
Penelope Lively, How It All Began

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

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