A House Unlocked
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lively, Penelope, PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers, whom ong>Theong> New York Times Book Review has called "blessed... able ong>toong> render matters of great import with a breath, a barely audible sigh, a ong>toong>uch." In A House Unlocked, Lively bridges personal and social hisong>toong>ry in ong>tellingong> ong>theong> song>toong>ry of Golsoncott, ong>theong> country house in Somerset, England, that her grandparents bought in . As her narrative moves from room ong>toong> room, from object ong>toong> object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change -- and of ong>theong> family that changed with ong>theong> times. As she charts ong>theong> course of ong>theong> domestic tensions of class and community among her relatives, she brings ong>toong> life ong>theong> effects of ong>theong> horrors of ong>theong> Russian Revolution and ong>theong> Holocaust, through portraits of ong>theong> refugees who came ong>toong> live with ong>theong>m. A fascinating, intimate social hisong>toong>ry, A House Unlocked is an eloquent meditation on place and time, memory and hisong>toong>ry, and above all a ong>tributeong> ong>toong> ong>theong> meaning of home. "An inspiration.... This book helps define one of our leading novelists." -- Brian Martin, ong>Theong> Financial Times