Consequences

Name: Consequences
Author: Penelope Lively

by Penelope Lively

A chance event sets off a chain reaction across multiple generations and relationships

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Penelope Lively

British novelist who won the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger and has explored history, memory, and the instability of personal narrative throughout her career. Her fiction is notable for its intelligence and emotional restraint. She is one of Britain's most consistently admired novelists.

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