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Consequences
Penelope Lively
Hardcover, 258 pages; 2007
Also available: Audio (unabridged), seven CDs; 2007
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Members' Price (UB7662): $29.74
It all starts on a park bench in London, 1935, where Lorna sits weeping after a fight with her mother. Matt, an artist, is sitting nearby, feeding the ducks as he sketches them. They speak, fall in love, marry, and, with their little daughter, Molly, live an idyllic life in a country cottage. But then Matt must go off to war, and loses his life in the battle of Crete. This is one of those lovely novels in which every strand that's spun at the beginning is woven back in at the end. Lorna's difficult relationship with her mother, the cottage where the three lived so happily, Matt's wildlife engravings, and the island of Crete all figure dramatically in the life of Molly's daughter Ruth, the granddaughter whom Matt and Lorna never knew. It's all a matter of consequences—love, loss, and art through three generations.
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