num_pages: 240
description: In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change -- and of the family that changed with the times. As she charts the course of the domestic tensions of class and community among her relatives, she brings to life the effects of the horrors of the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust through portraits of the refugees who came to live with them. A fascinating, intimate social history of its times, A House Unlocked is an eloquent meditation on place and time, memory and history, and above all a tribute to the meaning of home.
language: English
title: A House Unlocked
titlecomplete: A House Unlocked
genres: British Literature, Autobiography, Essays, History, Adult, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 283
publisher: Grove Press