Caroline Moore

There is nothing cosy about Penelope Lively

Though she’s often dismissed as the ‘housewife’s choice’, her selected stories show her as beady, unsentimental and thoroughly modern

Penelope Lively at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2015. [Getty Images] 
issue 04 December 2021

  • Metamorphosis: Selected Stories

    Penelope Lively

    Fig Tree, pp. 324, £20

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