- British, Fiction, Literature, Man Booker Prize Winner
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world.
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Contemplative, character-led, grave and prestige.
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Penelope Lively
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Penguin, Guild Publishing, A. Deutsch
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781850896630
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First sentence
“'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says.”
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