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Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, TV historian Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen. Taken in high summer, many years before, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Glyn's mind fills with questions. Who was the man? Who took the photograph? Where was it taken? When? Worst of all: had Kath planned for him to find out all along? THE PHOTOGRAPH is a literary, psychologically complex novel of suspense that brings acclaimed author Penelope Lively's talents to a whole new level.
Penelope Lively's engaging new novel, The Photograph, is a testament to the virtues of lightness. Though her subject is not light -- it is in fact death, and the hold the dead have upon the living -- her method is subtraction, lightness, the quick, telling stroke. In this, her 13th novel, Lively, winner of numerous awards (including the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger), tempers sprightly enthusiasm with perfect command of the form. — Valerie Martin
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David Weil
reviewed The Photograph on September 18, 2017
The Photograph
After his wife's death Glyn finds a photograph of her covertly holding the hand of her sister's husband. What follows is a narrative investigating how fundamentally unknowable everyone is. Glyn confronts his wife's sister with the photograph and all of a sudden various people who thought they had people boxed are compelled to revise their ideas. The four characters of this novel are brilliantly drawn, each one Lively brings vividly to life. And she's so good at writing about relationships. It reminded me a little of Rosamund Lehman's The Echoing Grove, also about sister rivalry. Lehman's novel is essentially a beautiful written and cleverly structured romance whereas this goes deeper. However I prefer Lehman's book. This rather fizzled out towards the end. There was a sense that what was proposed as an anarchic event simply caused a storm in a teacup. A solid rather than inspired novel. Moon Tiger remains my favourite of her novels by a long stretch.
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