Question: Penelope Lively and V. C. Andrews, are British?

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Slightly Foxed: Slightly Foxed is a British quarterly literary magazine.  Its primary focus is books and book culture.  2016 saw the publication of its fiftieth issue.  Notable authors to have written for the magazine include Penelope Lively, Richard Mabey, Diana Athill, Ronald Blythe and Robert Macfarlane.

City of the Mind: City of the Mind is a 1991 novel written by Penelope Lively.  It is an introspective novel which offers an attempt to explain the varying and complex relationships between the past and the present.

Penelope Lively: Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults.  She has won both the Booker Prize ("Moon Tiger", 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books ("The Ghost of Thomas Kempe", 1973).

The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read: The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read is a short story collection by British writer Susan Hill published in 2003 by Chatto & Windus (hardback) and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books.  It "received long and favourable reviews in "The Guardian" (Hermione Lee), "The Spectator" (Francis King), "The Sunday Times" (Penelope Lively) and "The Times Literary Supplement" (Mark Cries).

Moon Tiger: Moon Tiger is a 1987 novel by Penelope Lively which spans the time before, during and after World War II.  The novel won the 1987 Booker Prize.  It is written from multiple points of view and moves backward and forward through time.  It begins as the story of a woman who, on her deathbed, decides to write a history of the world, and develops into a story of love, incest and the desire to be recognized as an independent free thinking woman of the time.

Passing On: Passing On is a novel written by Penelope Lively and published in 1989.  It tells the sensitive and intimate story of how a brother and sister’s lives change after their imperious mother dies.  The story is set in the South of England in the late eighties.

Hampstead novel: Hampstead novel is a term used – often in a derogatory sense – to describe a particular genre of English fiction.  Journalist and literary critic Kate Kellaway has described it as "a middle-class morality novel – probably involving adultery and shallow-masquerading-as-deep."  Author and journalist Bill Buford calls it "middle class monologue".  A novel in this genre takes place in the affluent Hampstead area of London, or in a similar neighbourhood.  One novelist who is particularly often associated with the Hampstead novel is Margaret Drabble.  Other authors considered proponents of the style include Margaret Forster, Fay Weldon, Penelope Lively, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan, Melvyn Bragg and Zoë Heller.

The Victorian Chaise-Longue: The Victorian Chaise-Longue (1953) is a novella by the English novelist Marghanita Laski.  Published in 1953, the book describes the experience of an invalided young woman who wakes up in the body of her alter-ego eighty years previously.  Described by Anthony Boucher as 'relentlessly terrifying', and as 'disturbing and compulsive' by Penelope Lively, the novella plays on the fear of the unexpected and unknown.

V. C. Andrews: Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist.  She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia.  Andrews died of breast cancer at the age of 63.

According to Mark: According to Mark is a 1984 novel written by Penelope Lively.  It was shortlisted for Booker Prize for fiction.

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