Judgement Day
Judgement Day by Penelope Lively is a reprint edition published by Penguin Books in 1982, featuring 167 pages in English. The narrative follows Clare Paling, an intelligent and curious woman who relocates to the sleepy village of Laddenham due to her husband’s successful career. Despite her education, charm, and a seemingly perfect family life, Clare struggles to integrate into the tight-knit community, which is rife with intrigue, gossip, and social hierarchies.
Readers will encounter Clare’s journey as she becomes involved in a church pageant and faces a shocking death that forces her to confront the uncertainties of life. The story delves into themes of family life and the complexities of small-town dynamics, highlighting the challenges of fitting into a community marked by its own set of rules and expectations. This edition invites readers to explore the intricacies of human relationships and the unpredictability of existence.
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Clare Paling – clever, inquisitive, sceptical – has had to move to the drowsy village of Laddenham because of her highly successful husband’s job. She is well-educated, attractive, has a nice house and wonderful children, but finds it hard to fit into the small, closed community, with its interesting sideshows of adultery, gossip and carefully adhered-to pecking orders.
It takes her involvement in the church’s fourth-centenary pageant and an unpardonable death to remind Clare, who had almost forgotten, that however hard you try to make sense of it, the world is a very uncertain place.
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