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050	0	0	_aPR6062.I89 _bF36 2009
082	1		_aFIC LIV _2
100	1		_aLively, Penelope _d(, 1933-)
245	1	0	_aFamily album _c/ Penelope Lively
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Viking _c, 2009.
300			_a224 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aAlison wants the world to know that she presides over a large, happy, close-knit family. She and her distracted, uninvolved scholarly husband, Charles, have a brood of six who, along with Ingrid, the au pair, fill Allersmead, a somewhat worn, sprawling Edwardian English manse. Through the masterly use of emotional intricacies, Lively gradually reveals the simmer beneath the surface that belies the image of unity Alison has insisted on for decades, both within the family framework and without, to the world at large. Tradition and a sense of duty compel the adult children to return to Allersmead over the years, and it is through the mature observations of their childhood traumas (along with those of Alison, Charles, and Ingrid) that one learns the true cost of the shared and separate secrets that have informed their grownup lives as well as their relationships to one another.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aChildren _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFamily secrets _v--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c261881 _d261881