Full name: Spiderweb: A Novel

Author: Penelope Lively Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060929725 0060929723

At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time. She has spent her life studying communities of people--their families, social structures, how they welcome outsiders into their midst-remaining an observer, privileged to share in their intimate life but not obliged, and finally unwilling to tie herself closely to any lover, friend, or social group. In Somerset, Stella once again finds an opportunity to become part of the web of relationships that make for human society, as well as a chance at true friendship and love. How will independent-minded Stella, Lays reluctant to make an emotional commitment, respond? Written in exquisitely nuanced prose, Spiderweb is a captivating and deeply moving novel, a brilliant vision of our modern experience. Similar books: Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell Point of No Return by John P. Marquand Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge Daughter of Silence by Morris West The Plot by Irving Wallace The Insult by Rupert Thomson The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd Want Not by Jonathan Miles Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams Passing On by Penelope Lively How It All Began by Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively Heat Wave by Penelope Lively City of the Mind by Penelope Lively