Books written by Penelope Lively
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A Stitch in Time
Maria is spending the summer holidays with her family in Lyme Regis.
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A Stitch in Time
Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people.
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Life in the Garden
"Her body of work proves that certain themes never go out of fashion," writes the New York Times Book Review, as true of this beautiful volume as of the rest of the Lively canon.
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How It All Began: A Novel
A writer of rare wisdom, elegance, and humor, Lively is a consummate storyteller whose gifts are on full display in this masterful work.
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Judgment Day
Judgment Day takes us into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a sleepy village enlivened only by sideshows of adultery and gossip.
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A Stitch in Time
A Stitch in Time
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Heat Wave
While vacationing with her daughter and her family, a woman senses the warning signals of an affair about to happen, and aches for the pain she knows will soon be inflicted upon her.
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Family Album: A Novel
"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." —The New York Times Book Review Look out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.
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Consequences
Told in Lively's incomparable prose, this is a powerful story of growth, death, and renewal, as well as a penetrating look at how the major and minor events of the twentieth century changed lives.
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The Presence of the Past: An Introduction to Landscape History
The Presence of the Past: An Introduction to Landscape History
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Moon Tiger
Winner of the Man Booker Prize Penelope Lively won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel.
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The Road to Lichfield
In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of forty-year-old Anne Linton, who comes to her father’s aid when he is moved into a nursing home in a distant town.
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The Stained Glass Window
The story of a knight and his lady locked in a stained glass window. First pub. 1976. B/W illustrations.
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The Photograph
Propelled by the author’s signature mastery of narrative and psychology, The Photograph is Lively at her very best.
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The Whispering Knights
The new edition builds on the success of the original series and provides enhanced teaching support. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information.
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Moon Tiger
Claudia Hampton, dying in a hospital, remembers a war-time affair with a young tank officer killed in the North African desert war.
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Family Album
In "Family Album," lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect facade to reveal the unsettling truths. All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood.
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Life in the Garden
"Her body of work proves that certain themes never go out of fashion," writes the New York Times Book Review, as true of this beautiful volume as of the rest of the Lively canon.
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Cleopatra's Sister: Novel, A
A palaeontologist by choice--and perhaps due to the accidental discovery of a fossil fragment on the north coast of England when he was six years old--Howard Beamish is flying to Nairobi on a professional mission when his plane is forced to ...
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A House Unlocked
Penelope Lively has turned her considerable literary talent to non-fiction with A House Unlocked, a meandering collection of memories inspired by Golsoncott, the Somerset country home occupied by her family...