The House in Norham Gardens
$19.97
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2016
Summary
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime
No. 40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum.
Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and det…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141361901 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141361905 |
| Author: | Penelope Lively |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | A Puffin Book |
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About The Author
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt and spent her childhood there. She came to England at the age of twelve, in 1945, and went to boarding school in Sussex. She went on to read Modern History at St Anne’s College, Oxford. In 1957 she married Jack Lively (who died in 1998). They had two children, Josephine and Adam. Jack Lively’s academic career took the family from Swansea to Sussex and Oxford, and eventually to Warwick University, where he was Professor of Politics. Penelope Lively now has six grandchildren and lives in London.
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