{"product_id":"oleander-jacaranda-a-childhood-perceived-9780060926229","title":"Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived","description":"A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, \u003cem\u003eOleander, Jacaranda\u003c\/em\u003e evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, \u003cem\u003eOleander, Jacaranda\u003c\/em\u003e follows the young Penelope from a visit to a \u003cem\u003efellaheen\u003c\/em\u003e village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLively, Penelope:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cbr\u003e Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel \u003cem\u003eMoon Tiger, \u003c\/em\u003e which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently \u003cem\u003eHeat Wave.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in Oxfordshire and London.","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491360280850,"sku":"9780060926229","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7f8e9e2c-21d7-493a-bb7f-e17a4e25d9b5.jpg?v=1730539608","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oleander-jacaranda-a-childhood-perceived-9780060926229","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}