A Stitch in Time, Penelope Lively
A Stitch in Time, Penelope Lively
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A Stitch in Time

Author: Penelope Lively

Narrator: Lucy Scott

Unabridged: 4 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2021


Synopsis

Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination… A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award,republished in the Collins Modern Classics range. Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren’t there – a swing creaking, a dog barking – and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it. But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriet’s world, she grows convinced that something tragic occurred… Perfect for fans of ghostly mysteries like ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’.

About Penelope Lively

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by lucky little cat on August 22, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Lady Clementina on October 16, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Chris on April 08, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Jamie on March 25, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Georgiana on November 22, 2019

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


Quotes

“Gentle and humorous with a touch of mystery.” Michelle Magorian, bestselling author of ‘Goodnight, Mister Tom’