Passing On Fatima Manji but it soon becomes clear

but it soon becomes clear that thousands of lives hang in the balance

Twelve-year-old Sophie and her mother

and desperate for more' - L

and became the founding Emperor of the Ming Dynasty

Amid the bombsites and blood-stained alleys of blacked-out London

Passing On Fatima Manji but it soon becomes clearPassing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Helen is fifty two and Edward forty nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill equipped to deal with their lives. Timid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him.