Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
by By Lively, Penelope
Category: Biography & Autobiography , Historical

A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author&#39;s unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets  of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively&#39;s memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.