

An edition of Consequences (2007)
By Penelope Lively
Publish Date
2007
Publisher
Viking
Language
eng
Pages
272
Description:
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 ...
subjects: Social life and customs, Literature, War and family, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, War and families, Large type books, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Great britain, social life and customs, fiction, United states, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, England, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction
Places: United States, Great Britain
Times: 20th century