The House in Norham Gardens - A Puffin Book
The House in Norham Gardens - A Puffin Book
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7 July, 2016
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Description
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 determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins.
Dreams begin to haunt her - dreams of another country, another culture, another time, and of shadowy people whom she feels are watching her. Who are they, and what do they want?
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141361901 |
| ISBN10 | 0141361905 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 212 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 18 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
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.