The Photograph

The Photograph A novel by Penelope Lively Booker
Prize-winning novelist Penelope Livelys latest novel 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 DONT OPEN –
DESTROY. But Kaths husband does not heed the warning
embarking on a journey of discovery that reveals a tight
web of secrets: within marriages between sisters and at
the heart of an affair. Kath with her mesmerizing looks
and casual ways moves like a ghost through the memories of
everyone who knew her – and a portrait emerges of a woman
whose life cannot be understood without plumbing the
emotional depths of the people she touched. Propelled by
the authors signature mastery of narrative and psychology
The Photograph is Lively at her very best the dazzling
climax to all she has written before.