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Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively CBE (born March 17, 1933) 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.Born in Cairo in 1933, she spent her early childhood in Egypt, before being sent to boarding school in England at the age of twelve. She read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, and settled in England.

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Mora Beccar Varelahas quoted16 hours ago
I know gardeners well (or at least I think I do, for I am a gardener, too, but I experience gardening as an act of utter futility). I know their fickleness, I know their weakness for wanting in their own gardens the thing they have never seen before, or never possessed before, or saw in a garden (their friends’), something which they do not have and would like to have
Mora Beccar Varelahas quoted16 hours ago
something new, especially something from far away, and from so far away, a place where they will never live
Mora Beccar Varelahas quoted16 hours ago
Memory is a gardener’s real palette; memory as it summons up the past, memory as it shapes the present, memory as it dictates the future

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