Penelope Lively is a novelist, short story writer and author of children's books. Her novels have won several literary awards, including the Booker Prize for MOON TIGER in 1987. THE ROAD TO LICHFIELD and ACCORDING TO MARK were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her children's book THE GHOST OF THOMAS KEMPE was awarded the Carnegie Medal, and A STITCH IN TIME won a Whitbread Award.

Many of her titles, both for adults and children, have been widely translated. Her memoir of childhood in Egypt, OLEANDER, JACARANDA, was published in 1994, and A HOUSE UNLOCKED, a personal view of the twentieth century, appeared in 2001. She has written introductions and articles and has been a regular reviewer.

Penelope Lively is a former Chairman of the Society of Authors and has been a member of the Boards of the British Library and the British Council. She is an Hon. D. Litt of Tufts University, Mass. U.S.A. and of Warwick University and an Hon. Fellow of the University of Swansea.

She was awarded the OBE in 1989 and the CBE in 2001.

Here Penelope Lively writes about a young woman, her daughter and her granddaughter, their contrasting lives and their achievement of love.

Lorna escapes her conventional Kensington family to marry artist, Matt. They settle in a small cottage in Somerset, where their daughter Molly is born. But, World War II puts an end to their immense happiness. Molly will have to wait longer to find love as she gamely grapples with work and sex in 1960s London; while Ruth, Lorna's granddaughter, has to wait even longer still.

An enthralling examination of interweaving love and history, CONSEQUENCES pinpoints the moments when three women in very different times find love.