The three novels feature local history, roughly 600, 300, and 100 years past, in ways that approach time slip but do not posit travel to the past. For the latter she won the 1976 Whitbread Children's Book Award. For the former she won the 1973 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Lively published more than twenty books for children, achieving particular recognition with The Ghost of Thomas Kempe and A Stitch in Time. It is a low fantasy novel set in a Cotswolds village and the neighbouring woodland site of a medieval village wiped out by Plague. Her first book, Astercote, was published by Heinemann in 1970. Lively first achieved success with children's fiction. Lively has won both the Booker Prize ( Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books ( The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL ( née Low born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults.
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