Spiderweb - Tapa blanda

Stella Brentwood, retired anthropologist, has studied societies as exotic and remote as the villages scattered along the Nile Delta. However, she finds life in the small Somerset village where she has retired as subtle and elaborate a system to penetrate as any she has met. In particular she trys to fathom her fierce neighbour, Karen Hiscox, who governs her family with a menacing force. Interspersed with letters, journal entries and classified adverts, Penelope Lively's new novel sees Stella try to adjust to her new surroundings and sinister neighbours, whilst assessing the relationships and explorations which have defined the spiderweb of her life.

Penelope Lively is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors. She is married to Professor Jack Lively, and has two children and four grandchildren. She has written many prize-winning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children. MOON TIGER won the 1987 Booker Prize. She lives in Oxfordshire and London (N1).