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How It All Began
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How It All Began

Penelope Lively
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The wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively

The wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively

When … Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is … just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events.

In this engaging, utterly absorbing and brilliantly told novel, Penelope Lively shows us how one random event can cause marriages to fracture and heal themselves, opportunities to appear and disappear, lovers who might never have met to find each other and entire lives to become irrevocably changed.

Funny, humane, touching, sly and sympathetic, How It All Began is a brilliant sleight of hand from an author at the top of her game.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 July 2012
Pages
256
ISBN
9780241957271

The wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively

The wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively

When … Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is … just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events.

In this engaging, utterly absorbing and brilliantly told novel, Penelope Lively shows us how one random event can cause marriages to fracture and heal themselves, opportunities to appear and disappear, lovers who might never have met to find each other and entire lives to become irrevocably changed.

Funny, humane, touching, sly and sympathetic, How It All Began is a brilliant sleight of hand from an author at the top of her game.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 July 2012
Pages
256
ISBN
9780241957271

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