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Consequences

By Penelope Lively

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| Hardcover | 9780670038565

Book Description

The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel since The Photograph is a sweeping saga of three generations of women, their lives, and loves

A chance meeting in St. James's Park begins young Lorna and Matt's intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottagContinue

The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel since The Photograph is a sweeping saga of three generations of women, their lives, and loves

A chance meeting in St. James's Park begins young Lorna and Matt's intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together—Matt's woodcarving, Lorna's self-discovery, their new baby, Molly—is shattered with the arrival of World War II. In 1960s London, Molly happens upon a forgotten newspaper—a seemingly small moment that leads to her first job and, eventually, a pregnancy by a wealthy man who wants to marry her but whom she does not love. Thirty years later, Ruth, who has always considered her existence a peculiar accident, questions her own marriage and begins a journey that takes her back to 1941—and a redefinition of herself and of love.

Told in Lively's incomparable prose, Consequences is a powerful story of growth, death, and rebirth and a study of the previous century—its major and minor events, its shaping of public consciousness, and its changing of lives.

2 Reviews

  • Everything comes full circle

    I loved how the story ended exactly where it started.

    Much life was lived by the 3 generations of women that the story was about.

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    ― Helena said on Dec 28, 2008 | 2 feedbacks

  • Like the title would suggest, Lively explores how every day decisions and events can completely change the course of one's life. The story follows 3 generations of women in the same family (1930s-present), who all experience tragedy and disappointment because of their choices. Lively shows that ever ... (continue)

    Like the title would suggest, Lively explores how every day decisions and events can completely change the course of one's life. The story follows 3 generations of women in the same family (1930s-present), who all experience tragedy and disappointment because of their choices. Lively shows that everything is linked, how the people we come in contact with have a significant impact on us even if it does not appear so at first. This novel is full of insightful passages that I had to copy down in a notebook. Don't miss out on this one!

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