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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Penelope Lively'... We found 11 matches.
Penelope Lively
Consequences In her most touching novel yet, Penelope Lively writes about a young woman, her daughter and her granddaughter, their contrasting lives and their achievement of love. Lorna escapes her conventional Kensington family to marry artist, Matt. They settle in a small cottage in Somerset, where their daughter Molly is born. But, the Second World War puts an end to their immense happiness. Molly will have to wait longer to find love as she gamely grapples with work and sex in 1960s London; while Ruth, Lorna's granddaughter, has to wait even longer still. An enthralling examination of interweaving love and history, Consequences pinpoints the moments when three women in very different times find love.
Fig Tree 2007 Hardback £16.99 ISBN 978-0670915835
Penguin Books Ltd 2008 pbk £7.99 ISBN Accompanied-by-two-young-children,-Olivia-has-left-a-violent-marriage-and-returned-to-her-childhood-home,-an-austere-chateau-surrounded-by-formal-gardens.-She-considers-herself-to-be-already-'murdered',-dead-before-dying.-At-the-same-time-as-this-unannounced-homecoming-another-couple-are-expected-at-the-chateau:-her-brother-Marcus-and-his-wife-Sophie-are-due-back-from-the-hospital-with-their-newborn.-In-this-brittle-world-of-emotional-control,-everyone-tries-to-hold-themselves-together-as-a-tragic-secret-pushes-them-towards-breaking-point...A-darkly-mesmerising-tale,-"Disquiet"-is-disturbing,-atmospheric,-subtle-and-quite-brilliant.  Author photo: Jerry Bauer
Penelope Lively
The Driftway Running away from home along the ancient Driftway, Paul receives messages from the past - which help him resolve his present problems.
Reading age 7 to 11, interest level 7 to 11
Mammoth 1993 pbk £4.50 ISBN 0-7497-0792-5
BBC Audio 2001 Audiotape £14.99 ISBN 1-85549-342-X Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Penelope Lively
A House Unlocked A meandering collection of memories inspired by Golsoncott, the Somerset country home occupied by Penelope Lively's family for the greater part of the last century. Lively recalls the events, customs and people that together paint a slowly shifting picture of English country life in the 20th century. It is at once personal and social - a diary of the house and its occupants, and a memoir of the historical landscape.
Penguin 2002 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-14-100164-X
Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth61
http://www.penelopelively.net/ http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,542511,00.html http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,542512,00.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/discover/archive_interviews/34.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/lively/ 
Penelope Lively
Illustrated by Ian Andrews In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid Aeneas flees from the sacked city of Troy, entrusted by his goddess-mother Venus with a daunting mission: to find a new homeland for his people. Over 2000 years after Virgil wrote his epic The Aeneid, Penelope Lively retells Aeneas' story with pace poignancy and drama, while Ian Andrew's illustrations bring the characters beautifully to life. Together they create an introduction to The Aeneid which takes its place alongside Rosemary Sutcliff's classic retellings of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey. The book includes a Latin pronunciation guide and a map of Aeneas' long, arduous, death-defying journey.
Reading age 7 to 12, interest level 7 to 12
Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2007 pbk £9.99 ISBN 978-1845077921
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth61
Penelope Lively
Judgement Day Clare Paling has had to move to a drowsy village because of her successful husband's job. She finds it hard to fit into the small, closed community. It takes her involvement in the church's fourth-century pageant and an unpardonable death to remind Clare that the world is an uncertain place.
Penguin Books 1982 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0140061185
Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth61
http://penelopelively.net/ 
Penelope Lively
Making It Up In this fascinating new piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks what if she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad? In this highly original work, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path...
Penguin Books Ltd 2006 pbk £7.99 ISBN 978-0-14-102119-5
Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger Claudia Hampton is dying. As memories crowd in, she re-creates the mosiac of her life, her own story enmeshed with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the centre of her life, Tom, her one great love both found and lost in the 'mad fairyland' of war-torn Egypt.
1987 Booker Prize
Moon Publications 2000 pbk £9.99 ISBN 0-8021-3533-1
Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Penelope Lively
Oleander Jacaranda This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Eygpt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view, which is also, ultimately, a moving and rather sad picture of an isolated and lonely little girl.
Ulverscroft 1998 hbk £5.00 ISBN 0-7089-3348-3
Penguin 1995 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-14-023587-6 Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Penelope Lively
The Photograph Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. It shows his wife holding hands with another man. As Glyn begins to search for answers, he, and those around him, find the certainties of the past and present slip away.
Penguin Books 2004 pbk £7.99 ISBN 0-14-101194-7
Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth61
http://www.encompassculture.com/readinggroups/readersnotes/thephotographbypenelopelively/ http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,880840,00.html http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=374421 
Penelope Lively
A Stitch in Time Maria, an only child, comes to spend the summer hoolidays with her family in Lyme Regis. She finds a sampler stitched by a girl, Harriet in 1865 and it becomes clear that something odd happened to Harriet - but what?
Reading age 7 to 11, interest level 7 to 11
Mammoth 1994 pbk £3.99 ISBN 0-7497-0789-5
Author photo: © Jerry Bauer
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth61
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/n3/n15166.htm?authorid=4058 http://www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore/engks3/stitchintime.htm http://www.penelopelively.net/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gfi/story/authors/penelope_lively.shtml 
Edited by Penelope Lively & George Szirtes
New Writing 10 This anthology of new writing promotes contemporary literature of the English language from Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth. It contains new names among older, recognizable names and includes short stories, poems, novels in progress and short fiction.
Picador 2001 pbk £8.99 ISBN 0-330-48268-8
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