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Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively

Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged in her own loss until, shocked into feeling by the unexpected revelations and private sufferings of others, she is drawn agonizingly into new life - not into perfect happiness but into the sunlight of new hope. Penelope Lively''s moving and beautifully observed novel illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief.

''A triumph'' Spectator

Perfect Happiness

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 1/31/1985 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780140069969, 978-0140069969
      ISBN10: 0140069968

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively

      Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged in her own loss until, shocked into feeling by the unexpected revelations and private sufferings of others, she is drawn agonizingly into new life - not into perfect happiness but into the sunlight of new hope. Penelope Lively''s moving and beautifully observed novel illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief.

      ''A triumph'' Spectator

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