Spiderweb: A Novel - Softcover

"Lively cuts to the complex heart of human emotion and motivation.... Carefully thought out and exceedingly smart". -- PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"Understated and elegant....Penelope Lively makes a strong case for risk-taking in one's personal life and for allowing oneself to get entwined in spiderwebs of other people's making." --"Wall Street Journal""Her work is invariably intelligent, thoughtful, humane and far deeper than first impressions might suggest....a fine work of fiction." --Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post""Clever, low-key and deeply observant." --"Seattle Times""Lively cuts to the complex heart of human emotion and motivation....Carefully thought out and exceedingly smart." --"Philadelphia Inquirer""Lively's perceptive vision about the insularity of modern life rings true." --"Publishers Weekly""A strong addition to the already impressive list of Lively's fictional accomplishments....A quietly compelling drama with many shades of sadness, this is also a scrupulous portrait, both honest and sympathetic, of the proverbial rolling stone." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred)"Penelope Lively's latest novel has the usual wonderful Lively strengths: gentle, intelligent, seamlessly written. Any jangled reader can find solace in her prose....Lively's a great writer." --"Boston Globe""Any fan of Penelope Lively will find familiarity and comfort in her latest novel, Spiderweb....Lively has a keen eye for detail and an authority in her writing that is admirable." --"Providence Sunday Journal""A splendid novel...I hated to see the last of Stella." --"Trenton Times"

A retired anthropologist buys a house in Somerset, England and, for the first time in her life, opens herself up to the joys of community, in a new novel by the Booker Prizewinning author of Heat Wave and Oleander, Jacaranda. Reprint.