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The Photograph

by Penelope Lively
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"One of Britain's most talented and experienced writers. The closer you look the more mystery you see."  —The Times (London)
A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, about what can happen when you look too closely into the past
Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, many years earlier, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man.
Glyn's work as a historian should have prepared him for unexpected findings and reversals, but he is ill-prepared for this radical shift in perception. His mind fills with questions. Who was the man? Who took the photograph? Where was it taken? When? Had Kath planned for him to find out all along?
As Glyn begins to search for answers, he, and those around him, find the certainties of the past and present slip away, and the picture of the beautiful woman they all thought they knew distort.
  
Propelled by the author’s signature mastery of narrative and psychology, The Photograph is Lively at her very best.
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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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  • ISBN: 9781440626531
  • Release date: May 25, 2004

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  • ISBN: 9781440626531
  • File size: 408 KB
  • Release date: May 25, 2004
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature

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"One of Britain's most talented and experienced writers. The closer you look the more mystery you see."  —The Times (London)
A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, about what can happen when you look too closely into the past
Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, many years earlier, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man.
Glyn's work as a historian should have prepared him for unexpected findings and reversals, but he is ill-prepared for this radical shift in perception. His mind fills with questions. Who was the man? Who took the photograph? Where was it taken? When? Had Kath planned for him to find out all along?
As Glyn begins to search for answers, he, and those around him, find the certainties of the past and present slip away, and the picture of the beautiful woman they all thought they knew distort.
  
Propelled by the author’s signature mastery of narrative and psychology, The Photograph is Lively at her very best.
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature