Consequences

By Penelope Lively

Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Literature, Great britain, social life and customs, fiction, Large type books, World War, 1939-1945, War and families, Fiction, War and family, Social life and customs, Fiction, romance, historical, general, United states, fiction, History

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 ...