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How It All Began

Penelope Lively

Hardcover | Pages: 229 pages

Rating: 3.54 | 7482 Users | 1283 Reviews

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Original Title:	How It All Began
ISBN:	0670023442 (ISBN13: 9780670023448)
Edition Language:	English

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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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Title	:	How It All Began
Author	:	Penelope Lively
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 229 pages
Published	:	January 5th 2012 by Viking (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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At age 77, Charlotte has retired from a career as the sort of teacher who changes students' lives. Though widowed, she volunteers to teach adult literacy and is fiercely independent right up to the minute that a mugger throws her to the pavement, breaking her hip. Forced to live with her daughter and son-in-law while recuperating, she agrees to have one of her adult students come to the house for tutoring. This sets the plot in motion, affecting the lives of many people around her.I've always

3.5 for me - A book group book, we found this one perfect for December. Though not all light and fluffy, it was just enough an easy read and nice story not to depress us in the holiday season.Myself, I really loved the opening pages when Charlotte, age 77, the main character, really finds life coming from the ground up to smack her in the face. From here, it's sort of a serendipitous story where life offers surprises, the cause and effect (or is that affect, I hate this word!) that can change

Three great things about Penelope Lively's How It All Began: (1) It's very funny. (2) One always has the sense that she as the writer is completely in control of her characters and the plot (and I just read a couple books where I was not totally convinced of this). (3) And it's the perfect answer to that silly platitude: "Everything happens for a reason." This novel explores the interconnectedness of people's lives and all the things that happen to them -- not "for a reason," but because of

I have been a devoted Penelope Lively fan ever since I read "Moon Tiger" back in the early 1990s. In fact, I've reread that novel a few times since, and it holds up every time. I think it's because there is such authority in her writing. Not arrogance ... Lively writes from a place of genuine understanding of human nature. Better yet, she doesn't take herself too seriously. Her brilliance is in her ability with nuance, a talent that never fails to impress me. In this novel, Charlotte Rainsford

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 she's ruminating on being in constant pain from the resultant broken hip:Ah, old age. The twilight years -- that delicate phrase. Twilight my foot -- roaring dawn of a new life, more like, the one you

Another charming and erudite novel from Penelope Lively, whose books are always a pleasure to read. This one was conceived as an illustration of the butterfly effect. Charlotte, an old widow, is mugged and falls, breaking her hip. This sets in chain a series of events that demonstrate the interconnected nature of modern lives and the way lives are derailed by random events.This feels like a companion piece to her book Making it Up, in which she imagined alternative versions of her own life that

The effects of how one incident can ripple into the lives of a handful of others. Brilliant!