Penelope Lively Books
House Inside Out
Relates the adventures of a variety of creatures--mice, spiders, pill bugs--that live, seen and unseen, in the nooks and crannies of an ordinary house.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreConsequences
Three generations of 20th-century women, their contrasting lives and their achievement of love. Lorna escapes her conventional Kensington family to marry artist Matt, but the Second World War puts...
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