Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively is a novelist and short-story writer. Her novel Moon Tiger was awarded the 1987 Booker Prize. Her most recent memoir, Ammonites & Leaping Fish, was her view of life at eighty.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 140

Books Do Furnish a Room

Penelope Lively

‘The shelves say something about the person who has stocked them; they say much.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 140

Penelope Lively | A London View

Penelope Lively

A cat walks across the empty tarmac of the yard. The place is once more local and domestic.

Penelope Lively

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Books Do Furnish a Room

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Penelope Lively | A London View

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 140

Essays & Memoir | Issue 140

Essays & Memoir | Issue 140

Essays & Memoir | Issue 140