Passing On Fatima Manji Amid the bombsites and blood-stained

Amid the bombsites and blood-stained alleys of blacked-out London

is found drowned in a derelict boatyard

The barons demand reform

Twelve-year-old Sophie and her mother

is already a formidable figure and warrior

Passing On Fatima Manji Amid the bombsites and blood-stainedPassing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. Helen is fifty two and Edward forty nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill equipped to deal with their lives. Timid, cautious and naive, Helen makes the charming Giles Carnaby, familiy solicitor, the object of a belated schoolgirl crush, while Edward, free to express his sexuality at last, finds it gets the better of him.