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Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.

Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. 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. Its creation, however,...

Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.

When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell phone message; a posh yet financially strapped interior designer meets a business partner who might prove too good to be true;...

At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time. She has spent her life studying communities of people--their families, social structures, how they welcome outsiders into their midst-remaining an observer, privileged to share in their intimate life but not obliged, and finally unwilling to tie herself closely to any lover, friend, or social group. In Somerset, Stella once again finds an...

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center -- forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world -- is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during...

Claudia Hampton war Kriegsreporterin, sie ist Schriftstellerin und Historikerin. Eine kluge und selbstbewusste Frau, berühmt, in ständiger intellektueller Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Umgebung und sich selbst. Jetzt, todkrank in einem Krankenhausbett, blickt sie zurück. Persönliche Erinnerungen gehen nahtlos über in politische Ereignisse. Sie erzählt von einer Kindheit kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, über den Zweiten Weltkrieg und darüber hinaus. Alles in ihrem Leben ist Gegenwart: Kindheit und Krieg, Ägypten und England, die ganze Welt und ihre Vergangenheit. Aber Claudias...