Heat Wave

Author(s): Penelope Lively

Fiction

Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing.


Product Information

Extraordinarily good, intelligent and perceptive... very moving - Susan Hill

Penelope Lively is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987.

General Fields

  • : 9780141196824
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.146
  • : September 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 11mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : February 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Penelope Lively
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : 192