Full name: Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived

Author: Penelope Lively Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060926229 0060926228

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 that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood. Similar books: A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively Kitchen Privileges by Mary Higgins Clark The Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff An Open Book by Monica Dickens In Pieces by Sally Field Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark Being Jordan by Katie Price Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard An Unfinished Woman by Lillian Hellman The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende Slipstream by Elizabeth Jane Howard Under My Skin by Doris Lessing Nobody's Son by Luis Alberto Urrea Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier Extreme by Sharon Osbourne When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls