Penelope Lively

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Penelope Lively''s Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a ''history of the world...and in the process, my own''. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia''s life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. "Leaves its traces in the air long after you''ve put it away." (Anne Tyler). "A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes." (Daily Telegraph). "Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished." (Literary Review).

Glyn Peters, un prestigioso historiador del paisaje, encuentra por casualidad una vieja fotografía en la que aparece su mujer, Kath, fallecida quince años antes, cogida de la mano con otro hombre. El hallazgo le impulsara a indagar en la vida de su mujer con la saña del marido humillado y la meticulosidad del arqueologo. El descubrimiento de la fotografia tambien afectara, de una forma u otra, a otras cuatro personas muy cercanas a Kath, que llegaran a conocer un pasado que ni siquiera habian sospechado.JULIAN BARNES ha dicho de PENELOPE LIVELY: Los cuatro ultimos libros de Penelope Lively son cuatro de las mejores novelas inglesas publicadas despues de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Yo le habria dado el premio Booker en las cuatro ocasiones.

¿Fue antes la escritora o el jardín? Penelope Lively, una de las autoras británicas más celebradas del momento, abandona su papel de novelista y aborda en este delicioso libro su pasión por el arte, la literatura y la jardineria en un recorrido que la llevara en busca de los jardines (reales y literarios) que han marcado su vida: desde los patios de su casa de infancia en El Cairo hasta la finca de su abuela en Somerset, pasando por sus propios jardines de Oxford y Londres, y por la floresta de El paraiso perdido de Milton y los laberintos de Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas. Un libro que explora el vinculo entre literatura y naturaleza, entre las palabras y las flores, entre la tinta y la tierra, en un embriagador recorrido que nos lleva de vuelta al hogar primigenio de la humanidad.

Mark Lamming tiene una vida perfecta. Afamado escritor de biografías literarias, felizmente casado con Diana, una galerista de arte, ahora investiga la vida de Gilbert Strong, escritor, ensayista y dramaturgo victoriano. Sus pesquisas le llevan hasta Dean Close, antiguo hogar del autor, cuya casa ha sido reconvertida en un centro de jardineria dirigido por Carrie, la nieta de Strong, una joven naif, despreocupada y alejada del mundo literario. Sin embargo, cuando Mark empieza a visitar Dean Close con mas frecuencia de la necesaria, se da cuenta de que tal vez no sea solo su libro lo que le interese realmente. El mundo segun Mark es un exquisito ejercicio de amor a la literatura, un sublime ejercicio de sinceridad en el que asistimos a los estragos del deseo en plena crisis de la madurez.

DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kaths hand, but Glyn ignores his wifes instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Unable to forget this long-ago act of betrayal he recklessly excavates the past, seeking out who knew what, tearing apart other lives as he tries to dig up the roots of his wifes infidelity. But what is the truth about Kath? What is the truth about their love? And can it survive this?Remarkable Sunday Telegraph

'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth. Moves between Lively's own horticultural life and a broad history of gardening' Observer 'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping 'Exquisite and original' Daily Telegraph 'Enchanting. Reading this book is like walking with a wise, humorous guide through a series of garden rooms . . . and finding that vistas suddenly open out, on to history, fashion, politics, reflections on time and the taming of nature' Tablet 'A perfect bedside book. In part it's a memoir of the gardens in Lively's life, starting with the exotic Egyptian garden of her childhood and continuing up to her small present-day garden in a north London square' Sunday Express 'A gentle survey of the garden's place in Western culture, which morphs into a personal meditation on time, memory and a life well lived' i 'Scholarly bedtime reading' The Times, Books of the Year

In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away... Lorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth. Consequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by their shared experiences of love, pain, fate and happiness...

A los setenta y seis años, Claudia Hampton, una historiadora heterodoxa que ha escrito algunos libros de gran éxito de público, está muriéndose en un hospital londinense. En la neblina de su conciencia destellan aun ciertos recuerdos de su vida, aunque ella imagina que esta escribiendo una historia del mundo. Sin embargo, A los setenta y seis años, Claudia Hampton, una historiadora heterodoxa que ha escrito algunos libros de gran éxito de público, está muriéndose en un hospital londinense. En la neblina de su conciencia destellan aun ciertos recuerdos de su vida, aunque ella imagina que esta escribiendo una historia del mundo. Sin embargo, Moon Tiger, novela con la que Penelope Lively consiguio el premio Booker en 1987, no es otra cosa que la historia de la propia Claudia; la vida de una mujer fuerte y autonoma cuyas relaciones con la familia y los amigos han sido muchas veces dificiles.Conforme avanza la novela, va recreando el complejo mosaico de su vida y su epoca y recordando a las personas mas importantes de su vida: Gordon, su hermano y su mejor amigo; Jasper, amante tan encantador como indigno de confianza y padre de Lisa, hija unica de Claudia, una mujer fria y convencional; y Tom, jefe de artilleria a quien Claudia conoce durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Egipto, donde ella es corresponsal de prensa...

Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her fathers house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus.

Stella Brentwood has led an exotic life for a woman of her time. Her best friend at Oxford, Nadine, knew early what she wanted: marriage and children. Stella, too, has had her share of passion, but her work as an anthropologist - always the outsider, the observer, was her priority. Now she has decided to root herself in Somerset landscape.

'Lively remains a sublime storyteller' Guardian on How It All Began 'More stylish than many writers half her age ...Lively knows a thing of two about storytelling.' The Times on How It All Began A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doing her weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one could guess; a couple who don't know each other at all even after fifteen years together; and, in the story from which this collection takes its name, a bird and a servant girl in ancient Pompeii who cannot converse, but share a perfect understanding. In this new and varied collection of short stories, Penelope Lively shows that she remains a master of her craft, and one of our finest English writers.

Penelope Lively's Treasures of Time was published in 1979, and is an acutely observed study of marriage and manipulation. When the BBC want to make a documentary about acclaimed archaeologist Hugh Paxton, his widow Laura, daughter Kate and her fiance Tom are a little nervous: digging up the past can also disturb the present