How It All Began, Paperback/Penelope Lively

The latest novel, now in paperback, from the Booker Prize-winning author. It follows the success of Family Album, and explores how one random event can cause marriages to to fracture and heal themselves, opportunities to appear and disappear, lovers who may never have met to find each other, and lives to become irrevocably changed. Funny, humane, touching, sly and sympathetic.