Lively Dead [Paperback]

Peter Dickinson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (August 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380017067
• ISBN-13: 978-0380017065
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,698,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 70s Peter Dickinson, March 7, 2006

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Eleanor Skinner (Albany, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lively Dead (Paperback)

I love Peter Dickinson novels. He writes extremely well, sort of extremely good in a very subtle way, & you keep wanting to read more of him. This is a really nice one about a semi-Marxist landlord/housewife/carpenter with a pre-school age child, and a Baltic government-in-exile renting out the top floor of her house. One of her other tenants keels over and dies, a hot dude comes to work for the government, everybody follows each other, & the main character and her husband (who is recovering from depression/a nervous breakdown) have lovely cozy moments. I wish I had a nice relationship like that with someone.

By the way, there is another review of this book, by lazy reviewer, misfiled on the page for the book Walking Dead, also by Peter Dickinson.