The Road To Lichfield Av Penelope Lively

<p><b><i>The Road to Lichfield</i></b><b> is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively.</b><br><br>Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father''s house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus. Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, <i>The Road to Lichfield</i> is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, and a future never fully anticipated.<br><br><b>''A searing study of the peculiar state of being in love . . . there are few contemporary novelists to match her on this subject'' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b></p>