{"product_id":"9780140119329","title":"Passing On","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lively, Penelope \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/03\/1990,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780140119329,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Passing On is about the essential difficulty of being English, of coping with peculiarly English varieties of guilt, nostalgia, frustration and desire' Observer'Lively is at her sharpest, alert to every conceivable irony' Jonathan Coe, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697702043692,"sku":"9780140119329","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780140119329.jpg?v=1722599965","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780140119329","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}