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Penelope Lively
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Number of Pages
224
Age Group
All
Language
English
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Book Summary
A work of fiction in the realm of literary novels for adults, this intimate narrative follows a historian-narrator as she confronts her own history, unearthing the passions and pains that have defined her life. The central theme is memory and the act of writing historyโboth personal and world-spanning. The emotional tone is reflective, elegiac, and quietly adventurous in its pursuit of truth through memory.
The storytelling is story-led and memory-rich, moving between hospital bedside reflections and scenes from across decades and continents. Memories, flashbacks, and shifting voices weave a rich mosaic of life, love, and loss, inviting readers to see how one life can illuminate others across time and place.
Readers will experience a distinctive journey: lean, precise prose combined with intertwined timelines and vivid placesโfrom wartime Egypt to intimate family rooms. The reading rhythm invites careful rereading, rewarding attention with fresh connections between past and present and a deeper sense of how history lives inside a person as much as in books.
After finishing, readers gain a nuanced understanding of how personal memory can illuminate broader history, and how a life can be interpreted, reimagined, and carried forward with empathy, curiosity, and quiet wonder.
Product Details
Author
Penelope Lively
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Number of Pages
224
Language
English
SKU
9780141188317
ISBN
9780141188317
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
12.9x1.5x19.8cm
Binding
Hardback
MRP: โน 499
โน 475
โน 24 Off