A house unlocked
By: Penelope Lively.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Lively, Penelope, 1933- -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Golsoncott.; Lively, Penelope, 1933- -- Family.; Novelists, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Golsoncott.; Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Golsoncott (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Somerset (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Golsoncott (England) -- Social life and customs.; Somerset (England) -- Social life and customs.; Golsoncott (England) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "'I thought that I would see if the private life of a house could be made to bear witness to the public traumas of a century'. Here Penelope Lively recalls Golsoncott, the country house in Somerset her grandparents bought in 1923. Through the sometimes strange, unfamiliar articles there - the gong stand, the picnic rug, the potted meat jars and bon bon dishes - she charts the social changes and transforming moments of the twentieth century.

Changing attitudes to social class, the tension between town and country, how one learns to see the world: all are examined in this eloquent, fascinating memoir."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225)
Originally published: London : Penguin Books, 2001.