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Consequences

Penelope Lively author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:29th May '08

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A hugely satisfying and romantic novel, Consequences 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

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 *

  • Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
  • Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
  • Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

ISBN: 9780141021287

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm

Weight: 223g

320 pages