Spiderweb - Softcover

"Lively cuts to the complex heart of human emotion and motivation.... Carefully thought out and exceedingly smart". -- PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"Understated and elegant....Penelope Lively makes a strong case for risk-taking in one's personal life and for allowing oneself to get entwined in spiderwebs of other people's making." --"Wall Street Journal""Her work is invariably intelligent, thoughtful, humane and far deeper than first impressions might suggest....a fine work of fiction." --Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post""Clever, low-key and deeply observant." --"Seattle Times""Lively cuts to the complex heart of human emotion and motivation....Carefully thought out and exceedingly smart." --"Philadelphia Inquirer""Lively's perceptive vision about the insularity of modern life rings true." --"Publishers Weekly""A strong addition to the already impressive list of Lively's fictional accomplishments....A quietly compelling drama with many shades of sadness, this is also a scrupulous portrait, both honest and sympathetic, of the proverbial rolling stone." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred)"Penelope Lively's latest novel has the usual wonderful Lively strengths: gentle, intelligent, seamlessly written. Any jangled reader can find solace in her prose....Lively's a great writer." --"Boston Globe""Any fan of Penelope Lively will find familiarity and comfort in her latest novel, Spiderweb....Lively has a keen eye for detail and an authority in her writing that is admirable." --"Providence Sunday Journal""A splendid novel...I hated to see the last of Stella." --"Trenton Times"

Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel Moon Tiger, which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently Heat Wave. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.