The Road To Lichfield

The Road to Lichfield (1985) by Penelope Lively – Sold by Crappy Old Books

Memory is a tricky road, and no one maps it quite like Penelope Lively. In The Road to Lichfield, first published in 1977 and reissued by Penguin in 1985, Lively unearths the quiet chaos beneath the surface of an ordinary English life. When Anne Linton returns to her childhood landscape to visit her ailing father, she begins to uncover not only his past but unsettling truths about her own identity, her marriage, and the stories we choose to tell ourselves.

Written with Lively’s trademark elegance and psychological insight, this Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is a haunting exploration of time, secrecy, and the slow erosion of certainty. A novel for readers who enjoy their fiction layered, reflective, and beautifully British.

Condition: Paperback slightly yellowed, like old secrets left in the sun. May contain underlining from someone who fancied themselves deep.

Crappy Old Books: For readers who don’t mind a bit of foxing with their fiction.

Near new condition.

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