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.
- ISBN10 0802136257
- ISBN13 9780802136251
- Publish Date 5 March 1999 (first published July 1977)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avalon Travel Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English