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Goldsboro Books

0233983880

Passing On

Passing On

by Penelope Lively

Publisher Andre Deutsch

Genre: General Fiction and Rare & Collectible

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Very good first edition in a fine unclipped dust-jacket. Some yellowing and foxing to the pages, and minor signs of wear to the hardcover edges. This book is located in our Brighton store, and may take longer for delivery.

About the book

Passing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.

Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives.

Timid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him.

Dorothy may be dead and buried, but her iron grip continues to hold them in its power.

'Passing On is about the essential difficulty of being English, of coping with peculiarly English varieties of guilt, nostalgia, frustration and desire' Observer

'Lively is at her sharpest, alert to every conceivable irony' Jonathan Coe, Guardian

About the Author

Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).

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