How It All Began by Penelope Lively
“One beautiful spring day in London, Charlotte, an elderly retired English teacher, is mugged and breaks her hip. This event ricochets off the lives of seven other characters in her orbit, unsettling and rearranging them. While Charlotte convalesces with her likable daughter Rose, and her son-in-law Gerry, she takes measure of her infirmity. She imagines herself …