We are a group of friends who love to read. We
get together over breakfast once a month to talk about a book that
we've all read. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree, but we
usually have a lively discussion, whether it's about the book or
the latest gossip.
Last month's book
Last month we read Helpless by
Barbara Gowdy. Again, opinions were divided, but we all agreed that
it was uncomfortable subject matter. The ending was unsatisfactory
and we felt the characters weren't fully explored. A few of us did
enjoy it though, and we drew parallels with Natasha Kampuchea's
Stockhausen syndrome in Rachel's relationship with her captor.
This month's book
This month we are reading Consequences
by Penelope Lively. The next meeting is at 8pm on Wednesday,
10th September 2008 at Lucy's house.
"There
are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way
they need air."
RICHARD MAREK, Works of Genius (1987)
CONSEQUENCES
by
Penelope Lively
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 Lorna's dreams - away ...Lorna's decisions and their
unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first
of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth.
Consequences tells of three generations of women in their
own twentieth-century times united by their shared experiences
of love, pain, fate and happiness.
