num_pages: 210
description: 
  Passing On
 is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives. Timid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him. Dorothy may be dead and buried, but her iron grip continues to hold them in its power.
language: English
title: Passing on
titlecomplete: Passing on
genres: 20th Century, Death, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Psychology, Family, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1357
publisher: Andre Deutsch