Consequences

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Consequences
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Penelope Lively
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141021287
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Illustrations no pictures

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 29 May 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A hugely satisfying and romantic novel, plotting the lives of three generations of twentieth-century women Destinies can change in an instant. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away ... Lorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth. Consequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by their shared experiences of love, pain, fate and happiness ...

Author Biography

Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels for adults and children. They include- The Road To Lichfield, According To Mark, Moon Tiger (which won the 1987 Booker Prize), Heat Wave, Spiderweb, The Photograph and Making It Up. Penelope Lively lives in London.

Reviews

A flawlessly constructed mini-epic that will delight * Daily Telegraph * Nourishing fare from a fine writer on sparkling form * Daily Mail * Thoughtful and beautifully written * Woman and Home *