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Viking Adult
June 2007
On Sale: May 31, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0670038563
EAN: 9780670038565
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Fiction Women's Fiction
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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