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  • Perfect Happiness

    Penelope Lively

    eBook (Penguin, April 27, 2000)
    Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged in her own loss until, shocked into feeling by the unexpected revelations and private sufferings of others, she is drawn agonizingly into new life - not into perfect happiness but into the sunlight of new hope. Penelope Lively's moving and beautifully observed novel illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief.'A triumph' SpectatorPenelope 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. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. 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.
  • Perfect Happiness

    Penelope Lively

    Paperback (Gardners Books, Jan. 15, 1985)
    After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her own loss, until, shocked into feeling by the revelations and sufferings of others, she is drawn into the sunlight of new hope.
  • Perfect Happiness: A Novel

    Penelope Lively

    Hardcover (Doubleday, Aug. 1, 1984)
    Three women--widow Frances Brooklyn, her daughter, Tabitha, and her sisterin-law, Zoe--must relinquish the grief, memories, and pain of the past to find new life and love
  • Perfect Happiness

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    Hardcover (Remploy P, Aug. 15, 1994)
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  • Perfect Happiness

    Penelope Lively

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Nov. 1, 1985)
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  • Perfect Happiness

    Penelope Lively

    Paperback (Grand Central Pub, Aug. 1, 1985)
    Three women--widow Frances Brooklyn, her daughter, Tabitha, and her sister-in-law, Zoe--must relinquish the grief, memories, and pain of the past to find new life and love
  • Perfect Happiness

    Penelope Lively

    Hardcover (Heinemann, March 15, 1983)
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