A House Unlocked

Informationen zum Autor 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 . She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London. Klappentext Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels for adults and children. They include: The Road To Lichfield , According To Mark , Moon Tiger (which won the 1987 Booker Prize), Heat Wave , Spiderweb , The Photograph, Making It Up, Consequences and Family Album. Penelope Lively lives in London. Zusammenfassung The only child of divorced parents, the author was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, she began to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before. In this title, she delves into the domestic past of her former home, and the contrasts between life today and the way they lived then.

Product details

• Authors: Penelope Lively
• Assisted by: Harry Brockway (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2002
• EAN: 9780141001647
• ISBN: 978-0-14-100164-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, Autobiography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Autobiography: literary, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Autobiography: writers, Biography, Literature and Literary studies