A Stitch in Time

Penelope Lively (born 17 March 1933 in Cairo, Egypt) is a British author renowned for her fiction for both children and adults, winning the Carnegie Medal for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973) and the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger (1987), making her the only writer to receive both awards. She began with children's books like A Stitch in Time (Whitbread Children's Book Award, 1976) before transitioning to acclaimed adult novels such as The Road to Lichfield and According to Mark (both Booker shortlisted), and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2012 for services to literature. Penguin Random House, Harry Ransom Center