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Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
Penelope Lively's confident narrative introduces us to Howard, fossil mad from boyhood, whose life as a scientist has so far lacked one essential ingredient for happiness, the ability to fall in love. Enter Lucy, a journalist, 'the kind governments dread', who is equally sceptical about any philosophy of life involving faith or luck. Their worlds collide en route to Nairobi, when their plane is forced to land in Callimbia, an imaginary African country ruled by a military dictatorship, 'the ancient home of Cleopatra's sister Berenice'. Up to this point the author's sly humour and sharp observation have done no more than entertain. Now the book quickens pace and turns to its real subject matter: the random, total threat of terrorism. The story is resolved in an unexpected and dramatic climax which provokes a revaluation of the concepts 'destiny' and 'fate'. (Kirkus UK)
The Book of Disappearance
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