English family, Penelope Lively (1933) was born in Cairo, Egypt, where he lived until age twelve, experience tells in detail in Oleander, Jacaranda (1994).  He studied modern history at Oxford. He began his career as an author of books for children, a field in which remains prolific, until in 1977 he published The Road to Lichfield.  Among his twenty works of fiction worth mentioning Moon Tiger (which in 1987 won the prestigious Booker Prize), The Photograph (2003) and the recent Consequences, recently published by our label. In 1976 he received the Whitbread prize.