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
ISBN: | 9780141021287 |
Publication date: | 29th May 2008 |
Author: | Penelope Lively |
Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary romance Family Drama Romance / Relationship Stories General Fiction |