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Booker Prize–winning novelist Penelope Lively’s latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked "DON’T OPEN— DESTROY." But Kath’s husband does not heed the... read more
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Glynn discovers a photograph of his beloved late wife in a cupboard. It is marked -destroy do not open. But open it he does and discovers he may not have known her heart at all. He fears he was a cuckhold, her sister feels betrayed. Yet, we discover that there is pain and loneliness where... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
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Kath.
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- Penelope Lively (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Country: England
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0142004421
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Penguin
Country: England
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0142004421
Page Count: 240
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- Dewey: 823.914
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