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The road to Lichfield by Lively, Penelope is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The road to Lichfield about?
In *The Road to Lichfield, *Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of a forty-year-old woman, Anne Linton, who unexpectedly learns that her father had a mistress. With this new knowledge, Linton must now examine the realities of her own life - of her childhood, her husband - and ask, What do they really know of her?Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, *The Road to Lichfield* is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, a future never fully anticipated.words : 78844
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lively, Penelope
- Publisher
- Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802136251
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (452 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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