Penelope Lively - Family Album
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In her 16th novel, Family Album Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively
paints a delightful picture of family life somewhere (or indeed
anywhere) in Britain. Nine people live in a vast house and the
children have a shared if (as we discover later) somewhat
unorthodox upbringing. Everything may seem quite normal,
however like the house relationships are cracking at the seams. As
Ms. Lively tells Nicky Barranger, the children, now grown up have a
need to remember their childhood in a different way.
Also, in a separate interview Penelope Lively explains how the art
of writing has for her changed over the years.
In her 16th novel, Family Album Booker Prize winner Penelope
Lively paints a delightful picture of family life somewhere (or
indeed anywhere) in Britain. Nine people live in a vast house and
the children have a shared if (as we discover later) somewhat
unorthodox upbringing. Everything may seem quite normal,
however like the house relationships are cracking at the seams. As
Ms. Lively tells Nicky Barranger, the children, now grown up have a
need to remember their childhood in a different way.
Also, in a separate interview Penelope Lively explains how the
art of writing has for her changed over the years.
Penelope Lively
Family Album
Penelope Lively talks about her new book Family Album
in which nine people all live together in a vast home somewhere in
Britain.
Everything may seem quite normal. However, like the house
relationships are cracking at the seams. As Ms. Lively tells Nicky
Barranger, the children, now grown up have a need to remember their
childhood in a different way.
...Penelope Lively explains how the
art of writing has for her changed over the years.
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