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(0)Penelope Lively
1) Heat wave
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English
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Penelope is spending the long hot summer editing a romantic novel in a cottage set in the English countryside. The cottage is also occupied by Pauline's daughter, Teresa, and by Teresa's husband, Maurice, who is writing his own book. Teresa's overly possessive love for Maurice fills Pauline with dread: the same jealous passion for Teresa's father prematurely eroded her own youth. When Maurice's editor and his girlfriend take to spending weekends...
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Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the lawn at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real old-fashioned family life. But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded by a distant father, Alison's inexplicable emotional outbursts, and long-repressed secrets that no one dares mention.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden...