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Title	:	The Road to Lichfield
Author	:	Penelope Lively
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	March 5th 1999 by Grove Press (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Marriage

The Road to Lichfield

Penelope Lively

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 785 Users | 93 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	The Road to Lichfield
ISBN:	0802136257 (ISBN13: 9780802136251)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1977)

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Well-written but I couldn't get into taking the central conflict of the affair all that seriously. The protagonist floats through her life sort of like an Anita Brookner character, which I think is realistic, but not all that compelling in this novel.

I didn't love this. But the portrayal of the indifferent husband I thought was well done. I found the parallel romances a little cliche.

I've become an avid Penelope Lively fan and I dived into this one. It was like diving into cool translucent water on a hot day, so lucid the prose, so calm and unhurried the plot, so careful the nudges towards a theme. This is known territory: middle-class, middle-life, middle-England. Sounds tedious and parochial? What saves it is Lively's understanding of what I'm going to be daring (#pretentious) and call the 'psychic infrastructure' of her chosen subject. This could never be called a Big

We first meet Ann Linton, the protagonist of this carefully crafted novel, as she is deciding which route to take from her home in Berkshire to the Midlands where her father is dying in a Lichfield nursing home. Its the beginning of a series of journeys back and forth over that same road as she finds herself in the midst of a series of difficult discoveries about the past while trying to deal with the transitions and challenges she is facing in the present.While staying in her fathers house on

I've been on a recent Penelope Lively binge. She's my version of Maeve Binchy. Better writer, easy to get caught up in her stories. I like her female protagonists who are always prickly, never goody two shoes and usually acerbic in their judgments of the people around them. MOON TIGER will always be my favorite of hers, but the others are engaging. This one a little less so.

I discovered Penelope Lively about a month ago, with her Booker-Prize winning Moon Tiger. I devoured it not once, but twice in a one month period, and I can't wait to consume it again. It is a novel which will stay with me until death or dementia. I did not enjoy The Road to Lichfield quite as well. The writing is still exceptional, and it's better than most of what's out there. Ms. Lively does not waste a reader's time--she always offers you the meat, not the fat, and, when you hit the bone

I happened upon this book by chance and since discover that it was re-released in 2017. Having been first published in 1977 it now reads as a period piece with country houses costing 35k and a garage attendant filling your car with fuel. However in many ways that added to the appeal, looking back at a time I think I remember as 'modern' and realising just how different life was back then. Emotionally the novel hasn't dated but the reactions and ramifications to the feelings elicited have.