Passing on
by Penelope Lively | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140119329 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140119329 Global Overview for this book
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of Whitianga, Waikato-Coromandel New Zealand on 2/26/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by keeta1 from Whitianga, Waikato-Coromandel New Zealand on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
keeta1 from Whitianga, Waikato-Coromandel New Zealand on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Amazon Editorial Review
Passing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives. Timid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him. Dorothy may be dead and buried, but her iron grip continues to hold them in its power. "Passing On is about the essential difficulty of being English, of coping with peculiarly English varieties of guilt, nostalgia, frustration and desire".
Passing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives. Timid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him. Dorothy may be dead and buried, but her iron grip continues to hold them in its power. "Passing On is about the essential difficulty of being English, of coping with peculiarly English varieties of guilt, nostalgia, frustration and desire".
Journal Entry 2 by keeta1 at Howick Post Office in Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Tuesday, September 30, 2014
keeta1 at Howick Post Office in Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Tuesday, September 30, 2014
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