Penelope Lively Books
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. “Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit.” —...
Read MoreHow It All Began
A vibrant novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively—a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersectWhen Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty t...
Read MoreDancing Fish and Ammonites
The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us ca...
Read MoreConsequences
The Booker Prize winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women"One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day" (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three...
Read MoreMaking It Up
"Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively." -- The Washington PostAn intelligent examination of alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives wh...
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