A house unlocked / Penelope Lively Lively, Penelope, 1933-

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Lively, Penelope, 1933-
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Lively, Penelope, 1933-; Novelists, English - 20th century - Biography.; Golsoncott (Somerset, England)
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"'I thought that I would see if the private life of a house could be made to bear witness to the public traumas of a century'. Here Penelope Lively recalls Golsoncott, the country house in Somerset her grandparents bought in 1923. Through the sometimes strange, unfamiliar articles there - the gong stand, the picnic rug, the potted meat jars and bon bon dishes - she charts the social changes and transforming moments of the twentieth century. Changing attitudes to social class, the tension between town and country, how one learns to see the world: all are examined in this eloquent, fascinating memoir."--BOOK JACKET.
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