Penelope Lively
British novelist who won the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger and has explored history, memory, and the instability of personal narrative throughout her career. Her fiction is notable for its intelligence and emotional restraint. She is one of Britain's most consistently admired novelists.
Works
- Moon TigerAn old woman nearing death recounts her sweeping life story spanning continents and decades
- Cleopatra's SisterA British diplomat's daughter is kidnapped in North Africa with consequences rippling worldwide
- SpiderwebA mysterious medieval tapestry connects past and present through intertwined family secrets
- ConsequencesA chance event sets off a chain reaction across multiple generations and relationships
- How It All BeganA minor favour cascades into unexpected consequences affecting an entire community
- The Ghost of Thomas KempeA boy befriends the ghost of a seventeenth-century monk haunting his ancient English house
- The House in Norham GardensUniversity lodgers discover that their Oxford house holds ancient objects with mysterious connections
- A Stitch in TimeA girl's family photo album causes her to reevaluate the stories she thought she knew
- The DriftwayAn old driftway across English fields becomes a modern traveller's road to self-discovery
- Going BackAn adult returns to her childhood village exploring how memory shapes identity and belonging