The Road to Lichfield - Hardcover

Lively, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802111343 ISBN 13: 9780802111340

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Forty-five year old mother and solicitor's wife Anne Linton visits her aged father in the nursing home where he lives, and discovers new things about her father, her husband, her children and herself

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From the Back Cover:

'The tide's against us, hadn't you noticed? People haven't got that much time for the past nowadays'
Anne Linton is living a split life. Her father has suffered a stroke and most weekends she abandons her family and takes the road to Lichfield to be with him before he dies. But the longer she spends there, the more she is drawn into another life. Over a lingering summer she embarks on an affair, tries to save an old cottage from developers and discovers that her own father was not entirely the man she has always imagined him to be. As she begins to see the influence of the past everywhere she turns, Anne's present becomes more and more uncertain . . .

'Unfailingly literate, thoughtful and touching' Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0802111343
• ISBN 13: 9780802111340
• Binding: Hardcover