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Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world...and in the process, my own'. And it is her story, from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond.

But Claudia's life is entwined with others, and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their points of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.

©1987 Penelope Lively (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War & Military Romance Military War Africa
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The style of the reading seemed dated, the cut glass accent out of a previous era, but it worked brilliantly , as it was quite in keeping with the age of the characters and era of the narrative. The final paragraph was a work of beauty ; intense observation, which reconciled the spikiness and acidity of Claudi’s personality with the beauty of nature and the passage of time and the inevitability of life going on without her. It’s about time, memory , love … a wonderful listen.

Compelling memoir

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The central character is unlikeable and the story is very bitty. There are too many lists to allow the story to flow smoothly.

Failed to engage me.

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I found it hard to follow the rambling plot, I managed to finish the book but it really wasn’t for me. Narrator did a good job.

Confusing

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Persevere. The beginning is slow and the characters are not at first attractive. Eventually the book finds a rhythm and it becomes addictive. The descriptions fill all the senses and the people are so well written as characters of that age. My father fought in tanks in the desert but died before I was old enough to ask him about it - now I think I have some answers. Thank you, Penelope, for such a beautifully told story.

Painfully evocative

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A wonderful book. Liveley’s prose is beautiful. Such a moving story and the narrators are perfectly cast.

Exquisite prose

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