Penelope Lively



 

Penelope Lively

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born
March 17, 1933

gender
female

place of birth
United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction


about this author

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.





books by Penelope Lively

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avg rating: 3.42 | 1945 ratings | 66 distinct works
The Photograph The Photograph (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.10 — 402 ratings — published 2004
14 editions
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Moon Tiger Moon Tiger (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.71 — 239 ratings — published 1997
10 editions
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Consequences Consequences (Hardcover)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.48 — 166 ratings — published 2007
12 editions
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Making It Up Making It Up (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.29 — 55 ratings — published 2006
5 editions
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Cleopatra's Sister Cleopatra's Sister (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.68 — 34 ratings — published 1994
7 editions
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Heat Wave: Novel, A Heat Wave: Novel, A (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.48 — 33 ratings — published 1997
5 editions
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Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childho... Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.84 — 25 ratings — published 1995
7 editions
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The Road to Lichfield The Road to Lichfield (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 4.13 — 23 ratings — published 1999
6 editions
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Passing On Passing On (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.38 — 24 ratings — published 1999
5 editions
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Spiderweb Spiderweb (Paperback)
by Penelope Lively
avg rating 3.21 — 23 ratings — published 2000
5 editions
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"My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."
Penelope Lively (The Photograph)
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"A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery"
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