

A Stitch in Time
Author: Penelope Lively
Series: Collins Modern Classics
Narrator: Lucy Scott
Unabridged: 4 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Published: 04/15/2021
Author: Penelope Lively
Series: Collins Modern Classics
Narrator: Lucy Scott
Unabridged: 4 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Published: 04/15/2021
Penelope Lively is the author of numerous award-winning novels, including the Man Booker Prize–winning Moon Tiger and The Photograph. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of PEN, and a former chairman of the Society of Authors. She was awarded the CBE in 2002.
Penelope Lively fans will be delighted with this thoughtful, quiet coming-of-age story where shy Maria undergoes a mild-but-meaningful sea change. Seriously, did you hear what that cat just said to me? Full of old houses, the seaside, fossils, photo albums, one stitched sampler and a silently chagrine......more
In A Stitch in Time, we meet eleven-year-old Maria Foster who is heading down to Lyme Regis with her parents for a month of summer holiday. Maria is plain and small for her age, and also shy and sensitive, accustomed to being left on her own, for her parents who prefer a quiet life, treat her, in th......more
Though I haven’t yet read it Penelope Lively’s 2013 memoir, Ammonites and Leaping Fish: a Life in Time, picks up some up the themes that permeate her 1976 Whitbread Children’s Book Award winner: growing old, books, her cat, ammonites of course, all what has been described as “her identifying cargo o......more
A lovely little book for middle readers that I probably would have loved at that age, about a girl spending the summer with her parents at the seaside in England. She befriends a boy about her age and they spend a lot of time in the beach finding fossils. I was a little disappointed because I thought......more
Un piccolo gioiellino per ragazzi che ho letto in previsione di una visita a Lyme Regis quest'estate. Non avevo mai letto nulla di Penelope Lively, ma la sua scrittura è davvero magica. E poi mi sono innamorata di Maria, una ragazzina piena di sensibilità e intelligenza - sola, perché figlia unica e......more
“Gentle and humorous with a touch of mystery.” Michelle Magorian, bestselling author of ‘Goodnight, Mister Tom’