{"title":"Penelope Lively","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"passing-on","title":"Passing On","description":"\u003cp\u003ePassing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDorothy may be dead and buried, but her iron grip continues to hold them in its power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Passing On is about the essential difficulty of being English, of coping with peculiarly English varieties of guilt, nostalgia, frustration and desire' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Lively is at her sharpest, alert to every conceivable irony' Jonathan Coe, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47635750125862,"sku":"0233983880","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/249c0aa7-912e-47d3-8fbb-fca17df21e81.jpg?v=1707301704"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/penelope-lively.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}