Buy this book on-line LIVELY**, PENELOPE: : OLEANDER,JACARANDA: A Childhood PerceivedLONDON.VIKING,1994. ISBN 0670854700.
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Using memories of her childhood in Egypt in the 1930's,Penelope Lively provides us with a slice of autobiography which is also an exploration of childhood perception.These snapshots of recollection build up a picture of her happy, self-absorbed early years in a familiar land of canals and palm trees,mud-brick villages and water-buffalo,under the ever-watchful and loving eye of her nanny,Lucy.
Even the Second World War did not prove a disruption to an idyllic childhood,which was only shattered with her adolescence and her parents' divorce.
Penelope Lively's interpretation of the childhood which has remained so vivid in her mind,and of the subsequent trauma when she was sent back to a 'homeland' she had never regarded as home,makes poignant reading and stands as a metaphor for all lost childhoods.Combining the beady-eyed observations of a child with the knowing eye of an adult,she throws a new light on the attitude of the British community in Egypt to the war and the evacuation of women and children to Palestine when Cairo faced the ultimate threat from Rommel's army; she even gives us a tantalizing glimpse of General de Gaulle in his dressing-gown.
Two of her most highly acclaimed novels,'Moon Tiger' and 'Cleopatra's Sister',have drawn on the author's early life in Egypt as a source for her fiction.'Oleander,Jacaranda' takes us directly into this autobiographical territory and recalls the wealth of images and sensations that were her daily experience,and the agonizing sense of loss when she was parted from her
beloved Lucy,and had to leave childhood behind.
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