
A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape...

The Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger and Cleopatra's Sister now offers a poignant and bittersweet memoir of her unusual childhood, spent in England and Egypt--a thought-provoking exploration of the nature of childhood perception. 16 pages of photos.


This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Eygpt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's...

