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A Martian Comes to Stay Penelope Lively

A Martian Comes to Stay By Penelope Lively

A Martian Comes to Stay by Penelope Lively


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Summary

What happens when a Martian arrives on your doorstep and asks to borrow a spanner? An hilarious story for newly independent readers.

A Martian Comes to Stay Summary

A Martian Comes to Stay by Penelope Lively

The Martian's spaceship needs repairs, but when he returns with the spanner he's borrowed from Peter and his gran, he finds he's been abandoned! Luckily, Gran and Peter take him in, and introduce him to life in the country. It's all going well until they take him to the village fete . . . Will the local villages see through the Martian's cunning disguise - and what will happen if they do?

About Penelope Lively

For over thirty years, Penelope Lively has been praised as one of the finest writers at work in Britain. She won the Carnegie Medal for her novel The Ghost of Thomas Kempe and the Whitbread Award for A Stitch in Time. She mostly writes for adults now, and has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize - and won the Prize itself in 1987 for her bestselling novel, Moon Tiger. She has been awarded numerous other prizes and commendations and in 2002 was created a CBE. She has two children, five grandchildren and lives in north London.

Additional information

GOR004381343
9780340855683
0340855681
A Martian Comes to Stay by Penelope Lively
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hachette Children's Group
2002-10-17
64
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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