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THE LIVELY DEAD by Peter Dickinson Kirkus Star

THE LIVELY DEAD

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Pub Date: July 16th, 1975
Publisher: Pantheon

Who knows what will pop up under the dry-rotting floorboards or a rosebush outside the house that Lydia Timms owns and is trying to put in shape with a crowbar or a claw-hammer? Perhaps even a spy in the basement. Since two floors have been let to the Livonian government--one of those amorphous Balkan states--represented by ""harmless old dreamers"" in exile . . . or are ""their dreams nightmares""? Their charlady, on the tipple, has recently died but her body does not stay put and there's a reversal of roles, political, of almost everyone excluding the deceased's daughter who is a most attractive ""embodied impulse"" even though she's in jail. Peter Dickinson upstages almost everyone around with his distinctively different, stylish and literate entertainments and just one word will do--exceptional.