Consequences by Penelope Lively

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Penelope Lively
• Title: Consequences
• Publisher: ‎ Viking Books; First Edition (May 31, 2007)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 258 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0670038563
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0670038565
• Reading age: ‎ 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.2 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.24 x 1.1 x 9.3 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (shows some minor markings inside front cover / page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

A sweeping saga of three generations of women and the consequences of love and life.

A chance meeting in St. James's Park begins young Lorna and Matts 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 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.

About the Author:

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is a British author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger.

Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra’s Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began.

She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List, and DBE in 2012.

Penelope Lively lives in London.

She was married to Jack Lively, who died in 1998.