Consequences by Penelope Liveley
Consequences reminded me a little of the new Kate Atkinson book, Life After Life. Chance and choice play major roles.
Lorna would never have crossed paths with Matt if not for Fate. She was from a well-to-do London family and he was an up-and-coming artist from near the Welsh border. But she had a fight with her mother and ran off to the park for a good cry--which is where she met Matt, sketching ducks for a work project. They started talking and never stopped. Choice came into play when Lorna decided to stand up to her parents and marry Matt. Her life was now on a totally different trajectory than what had been planned for her.
Fate intervened again when Lorna's daughter Molly, years later, found a discarded newspaper on the subway and noticed a job opening for a personal assistant to a wealthy publisher. Choice came into the picture when she had to decide whether to get romantically involved with her unhappily married boss.
Her decisions set her life off on a totally different trajectory.
I like this story because Lorna, Molly and later Molly's daughter Ruth were all independent women who did what they wanted to do rather than what society expected them to do. And I like the way they all managed to cobble together "families," perhaps not in the traditional sense but loving, supportive families nonetheless.
If you're just in the mood for a good, old-fashioned, multi-generational story, Consequences is the book for you.
Lorna would never have crossed paths with Matt if not for Fate. She was from a well-to-do London family and he was an up-and-coming artist from near the Welsh border. But she had a fight with her mother and ran off to the park for a good cry--which is where she met Matt, sketching ducks for a work project. They started talking and never stopped. Choice came into play when Lorna decided to stand up to her parents and marry Matt. Her life was now on a totally different trajectory than what had been planned for her.
Fate intervened again when Lorna's daughter Molly, years later, found a discarded newspaper on the subway and noticed a job opening for a personal assistant to a wealthy publisher. Choice came into the picture when she had to decide whether to get romantically involved with her unhappily married boss.
Her decisions set her life off on a totally different trajectory.
I like this story because Lorna, Molly and later Molly's daughter Ruth were all independent women who did what they wanted to do rather than what society expected them to do. And I like the way they all managed to cobble together "families," perhaps not in the traditional sense but loving, supportive families nonetheless.
If you're just in the mood for a good, old-fashioned, multi-generational story, Consequences is the book for you.
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