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Unquestionably one of the finest living novelists today presents a poignant love story and a timely meditation on the city of London which has seen destruction, loss, and quest over several centuries. 5 cassettes.
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A national bestseller and a luminous work of fiction from the celebrated Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger.
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Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 014015759X
- ISBN 13 9780140157598
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint; First Printing. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Jenny Tylden-Wright. ; 224 pages; Wherever architect Matthew Halland looks in London, the city offers him its history and his own. Memories of his boyhood, his daughter's early years and his failed marriage, the London of grander times and the Blitz. But now Matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for London in Docklands, and perhaps new beginnings of his own. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 25265
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