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 · 13,227 ratings · 2,159 reviews · 81 distinct works · Similar authors
Moon Tiger
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,984 ratings — published 1987 — 27 editions
How It All Began
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 2,297 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions
The Photograph
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 2,212 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions
Consequences
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions
Family Album
3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 1,162 ratings — published 2009 — 20 editions
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 1973 — 21 editions
Heat Wave
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
Making it Up
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
Passing On
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 235 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.”
Penelope Lively

“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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