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CONSEQUENCES, by Penelope Lively

I've just discovered this new author - well at least for me! - and I just loved it...It's at the crossroads between Douglas Kennedy and Siri Hustved, the down-to-earth insight of women's states of mind combined with the flawlessness of a mini-epic make this book a delight and a compulsive page-turner...

Synopsis :

DESTINIES CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT

In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless 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 with him, Lorna's dream - away...

Lorna's decisions and their unforeseen consequences come to shape the lives of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth...

Consequences tells the story of three generations of women, spanning the twentieth-century, united by their shared experiences of love, pain, fate and happiness.

Critics :

- 'Elegant, meticulous, sensitively portrayed' Independent

- 'Brilliant, endearing...fine, highly charged' Guardian

- 'Masterful. Transforms the every day into something rich' Time Out

- 'Lashings of sentiment' Herald

- 'A fine writer on sparkling form' Daily Mail