# The House in Norham Gardens

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- Book: [The House in Norham Gardens](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-lively/the-house-in-norham-gardens) ([The House in Norham Gardens.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-lively/the-house-in-norham-gardens.md))
- Authors: [Penelope Lively](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-lively)
- Publisher: Puffin
- ISBN: 978-01-4136-190-1
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2016-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum. Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins. Dreams begin to haunt her - dreams of another country, another clture, another time, and of shadowy people whom she feels are watching her. Who are they, and what do they want?