Penelope Lively

Claudia Hampton escribe su historia del mundo desde la antesala de la muerte. Moon Tiger, ganadora del Premio Booker, es una joya de la narrativa británica, una novela deslumbrante y trágica, donde la memoria es una corriente fragmentaria, y el amor, la guerra y la perdida laten con belleza devastadora.Desde la cama de un hospital londinense, Claudia Hampton, celebre historiadora, periodista y cronista belica, decide escribir una historia del mundo. Lo que aflora, sin embargo, es la historia secreta de su propia vida. Una vida indomita, contradictoria, voraz. Un mosaico de la memoria que se desgrana en teselas. De la infancia bajo la sombra de un hermano brillante y opresivo a los dias abrasados por el desierto egipcio durante la guerra, de un amor tan fulgurante como imposible a una maternidad llevada con distancia y orgullo. En esta novela magistral, Penelope Lively ganadora del Premio Booker en 1987 y finalista del Golden Man Booker convierte a Claudia Hampton en una de las grandes heroinas literarias britanicas del siglo XX. Una mujer indomable, fascinante, que se niega a ser amable ni a ofrecer el consuelo de una narracion lineal. Moon Tiger es una meditacion feroz y delicada sobre el amor, la perdida, el tiempo y las historias que nos contamos para sobrevivir.Una obra maestra de la literatura britanica reciente, comparable por su hondura y complejidad emocional a las mejores novelas de Iris Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald o A. S. Byatt. Un tapiz deslumbrante y tejido sin concesiones, donde la historia personal y la historia universal se entrelazan hasta confundirse.CRITICAUna escritora soberbia y excepcionalmente dotada Una de las mejores ganadoras del Premio Booker de todos los tiempos The GuardianUna novela poderosa, conmovedora y bellamente elaborada sobre las formas en que la memoria personal y el pasado colectivo moldean las vidas. Boston GlobeLively pertenece a un grupo de brillantes mujeres novelistas que definieron la cultura de ficcion de la Gran Bretaña de posguerra... Moon Tiger es una elegante disquisicion sobre la memoria, la identidad, la edad, el amor y el arrepentimiento. Financial TimesNos atrae, nos engancha y nos entristece. Tambien es inesperadamente divertida Deja su huella en el aire mucho tiempo despues de haberlo guardado. The New York Times Book ReviewPenelope Lively escribe con una mezcla sorprendente de simpatia y desapego, sabiduria emocional e ingenio satirico. Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesMe senti seducida al instante por el inteligente y espinoso protagonista de esta novela ganadora del premio Booker. Susie Goldsbrough, The TimesEncontramos en ella una vision refrescante y nada sentimental del envejecimiento en una mujer inteligente. BookWordMaravillosa. Es un tesoro britanico. Marie Claire

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A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, a vague and unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion...

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.

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...

Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare.But was it?As adults, the children return to Allersmead one by one. To their home-making mother and aloof writer father, and a house that for years has played silent witness to a family''s secrets. And one devastating secret of which no one speaks . . .

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

'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

'I don't know that you have done anything wrong,' Miss Hepplewhite said. 'But it is possible that you have done something rather dangerous.' William and Susie thought they were just playing a game when they cooked a witch's brew in the old barn and said a spell over it, but Martha was not so sure. And indeed, the three friends soon learn that they have called up something dark and evil out of the distant past ...

In London's changing heartland architect Matthew Halland is constantly aware of the past and the present blending together. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz. But Matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for London in Docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his own.

The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate tales of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long relationships, Lively explores with keen insight the ways that individuals can become tangled in history, and small acts ripple through the generations. From new and never-before-published stories to forgotten treasures, Metamorphosis showcases the very best from a literary master.'Lively has the gift, rare and wonderful, of being able to peel back the layers one by one and set them before us, translucent and gleaming' Sunday Telegraph 'A sublime storyteller . . .she has us riveted with curiosity as to what will happen next, yet also keeps us consistently aware of the nature of the illusion' Guardian 'You are in the hands of a master' Daily Mail