by Penelope Lively
The current of this book takes on that of the butterfly effect, being that one seemingly small event can alter the course of proceeding events, in unforeseen and often sizable ways. It's an easy read, but might elicit food for thought on your own deeds and actions, whether they be those of commissio...
I went ahead and marked this five stars for "amazing," because it's rare that a contemporary novel is quotable. The main character is an educated British woman in her seventies, recovering from a mugging. First sentence: "The pavement rises up and hits her." Terrific, right? Here's a bit from when s...
I always enjoy Penelope Lively's books. Here, an older woman is mugged and injured enough to have to spend weeks recuperating in the home of her married daughter. This has a cascade of effects on other people's lives, from her daughter's employer (an aging and increasingly forgetful historian) to th...
An elderly woman gets mugged.That’s how it all began.Like the butterfly (what is the illusion? the butterfly breathing in the rainforest? the butterfly knocking its pupa onto a jaguar when it emerges?) in the well-known paradigm, this single act sets all kinds of crazy, unrelated events in motion. F...
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