The Lion From Rio - Oxford Paperbacks Author:Penelope Shuttle Shuttle's poetry is exceptional for its positive attitude towards human love, which she writes about with a startling combination of sensibility, irony, and practicality. "She is certainly one of the finest writers living in Britain today."--Anne Stevenson — Penelope Shuttle is a poet and novelist. Her previous collections of poems are The Orch... more »ard Upstairs and The Child-Stealers. She is also the author of five novels and two radio plays.« less