A House Unlocked

This “interesting and perceptive” memoir recalls the familial country house the author’s grandparents bought in 1923 ( The Washington Post Book World ).   The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents’ country house, Golsoncott. Long after the house was sold out of the family, she begins to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before.   As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object, Lively paints a moving