![]() ![]() ![]() She explored the same themes more explicitly in her nonfiction works, including A House Unlocked (2001) and Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived (1994), a memoir of her Egyptian childhood. As with all of Lively's fiction, Moon Tiger is marked by a close attention to the power of memory, the impact of the past upon the present, and the tensions between "official" and personal histories. She repeated the feat in 1984 with According to Mark, and won the 1987 prize for Moon Tiger, which tells the story of a woman's tempestuous life as she lies dying in a hospital bed. Lively's first novel for adults, The Road to Lichfield, was published in 1977 and made the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ![]() The three novels feature local history, roughly 600, 300, and 100 years past, in ways that approach time slip but do not posit travel to the past. For the latter she won the 1976 Whitbread Children's Book Award. ![]() For the former she won the 1973 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Lively published more than twenty books for children, achieving particular recognition with The Ghost of Thomas Kempe and A Stitch in Time. ![]()
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