Consequences [electronic resource]

Penelope Lively2008

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A hugely satisfying and romantic novel, in Consequences Penelope Lively plots the lives of three generations of twentieth-century women. 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 . . . 'A flawlessly constructed mini-epic that will delight' Daily Telegraph 'Nourishing fare from a writer on sparkling form' Daily Mail Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and ...