Author:Penelope Lively
Spiderwebis the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.
Stella Brentwood has led an exotic life for a woman of her time. Her frivolous best friend at Oxford, Nadine, knew early what she wanted: marriage and children. Stella, too, has had her share of passion, but her work as an anthropologist - always the outsider, the observer, was her priority.
Now she has decided to root herself in Somerset landscape. But she finds that village society in England us far more chaotic, more unpredictable, and even more cruel, than she has known before. And that she cannot - or will not - conform to its rules.
'She is a writer of great subtlety and understanding, and this is her best novel since Moon Tiger, which won the Booker Prize in 1987' The Scotsman
'Evokes an escalating atmosphere of menace . . . Lively at her deceptively easy-to-read best' Daily Mail
A seminal event in the most significant cultural and literary trend of the 1960s... Few creative works of post-Civil War America have had as much of the fibre and blood of national experience in them
—— NationOne of the best novels of the decade and the best novel ever about the American West
—— New York TimesHaunting
—— Sunday TelegraphDavid Malouf, a spare and delicate writer, presents here the first-person story of the Roman poet Ovid's exile in the distant, frosty wastes...hypnotic in its gripping accumulation of detail, its gradual unwrapping of human reality amid what at first seems a barbarian and unknowable environment. At the centre of this meticulously well-told tale is Ovid's encounter with a wild boy, brought up among the deer in the snow
—— Sunday TimesHighly readable, sensitive and intensely moving ... a fine achievement
—— Mail and Guardian, South AfricaTo speak of the novels of José Saramago is to speak of the sheer pleasure of reading
—— O Diario, Lisbon
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