num_pages: 224
description: In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of a forty-year-old woman, Anne Linton, who unexpectedly learns that her father had a mistress. With this new knowledge, Linton must now examine the realities of her own life - of her childhood, her husband - and ask, What do they really know of her? Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, a future never fully anticipated.
language: English
title: The Road to Lichfield
titlecomplete: The Road to Lichfield
genres: British Literature, English Literature, Adult Fiction, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Marriage, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1355
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Grove Press