Consequences Hardcover - 2007
by Penelope Lively
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
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.
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- Title Consequences
- Author Penelope Lively
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing.
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 258
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, New York
- Date 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3626
- ISBN 9780670038565 / 0670038563
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.26 x 0.98 in (23.52 x 15.90 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, World War, 1939-1945
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007297882
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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