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Penelope Lively

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About the Author

Penelope Lively’s adult novel Moon Tiger won the Booker Prize. In addition, her children’ s book The Ghost of Thomas Kempe won the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.

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Books by Penelope Lively

Life in the Garden
Life in the Garden
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
How It All Began
How It All Began
Family Album
Family Album
Consequences
Consequences

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The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries
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