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Penelope Lively

Born

in Cairo, Egypt

March 17, 1933

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http://penelopelively.co.uk/

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Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger.

Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra’s Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlis ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 69,927 ratings · 9,111 reviews · 132 distinct works • Similar authors

	Moon Tiger 3.91 avg rating — 19,339 ratings — published 1987 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How It All Began 3.59 avg rating — 9,466 ratings — published 2011 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Photograph 3.42 avg rating — 6,838 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Album 3.46 avg rating — 3,917 ratings — published 2009 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Consequences 3.76 avg rating — 3,151 ratings — published 2007 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heat Wave 3.87 avg rating — 2,256 ratings — published 1996 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost of Thomas Kempe 3.89 avg rating — 2,073 ratings — published 1973 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively, Katie Scott (Illustrator) 3.57 avg rating — 1,928 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Lichfield 3.85 avg rating — 1,768 ratings — published 1977 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passing On 3.97 avg rating — 1,694 ratings — published 1989 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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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

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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

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What would you like to read for May's group read? The theme for the month is birthdays.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

18 votes 16.8%

Half Bad by Sally Green

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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

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The Rules for Disappearing (The Rules for Disappearing, #1) by Ashley Elston

The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston

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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

5 votes 4.7%

You Wish by Mandy Hubbard

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Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

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The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver

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