Margot Livesey, Author . Holt $23 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6801-6
After Criminals
and The Missing World, it should be no surprise that the immensely talented Livesey continues to juxtapose strange events with mundane daily activities, sending a jolt through her ordinary characters and settings. The wonder is that...
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey, Author . Holt $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7462-8
A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred review.
BANISHING VERONA
Margot Livesey
. Holt
, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-8050-74
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey, Author . Harper $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-06-145152-2
The absorbing latest from Livesey (Homework
) opens multiple perspectives on the life of Dara MacLeod, a young London therapist, partly by paying subtle homage to literary figures and works. The first of four sections follows Keats scholar Sean...
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44487-9
``Banker finds Baby in Bus station'' is the caption that uptight London bachelor Ewan Munro ruefully realizes will describe events in this intriguing novel about the banality of evil. Discovering a swaddled infant in a lavatory stall in Perth, Ewan...
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-40581-5
The title of Livesey's new novel (after Criminals), another intriguing exploration of interlocking lives, refers to the memory lapse suffered by 31-year-old journalist Hazel Ransome after she is struck by a car. When she awakes in the hospital, her...
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey. Harper, $25.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-206422-6
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Livesey (The House on Fortune Street) offers vibrant prose and a feisty heroine in her fascinating sixth novel, set in Scotland in the early 1960s. After 10-year-old Gemma Hardy’s parents die, she is taken in by a kind uncle,...
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey. Harper, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-243750-1
Livesey’s latest (following The Flight of Gemma Hardy) is a fiercely intelligent exploration of the ways blindness—to ourselves, others, and the power of passion and grief—can divide and transform us. After his father dies of Parkinson’s,...
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey. Tin House, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-941040-68-3
Livesey (Mercury) writes with wisdom and insight about the craft of writing, proposing to expose what the professional author conceals that the apprentice fiction writer needs to know. This includes how character, plot, and imagery “work together to
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey, Author, Margaret Livesey, Author Viking Books $18.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-83000-8
A child's capacity for evil, favorite subject of much popular entertainment, is the theme of Livesey's ( Learning by Heart ) drably pedestrian though cleanly written tale. In order to escape a painful entanglement with an unfaithful lover in London,
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesay, Author, Margot Livesey, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-008157-2
These 10 gentle tales about uncertain young people and eccentric aging ones take place in London, its suburbs and remote corners of Scotland. The title story is an autobiographical account of the author's childhood in rural Scotland interwoven with...
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey. Harper, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-294639-3
Livesey (Mercury) serves up a distinctive blend of literary fiction and psychological thriller. It’s nearing the end of 1999 when teenaged sibling Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang spot a boy, beaten and unconscious, in the outskirts of Oxford, England,
READ FULL REVIEW
Margot Livesey. Knopf, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-53704-6
In the powerful latest from Livesey (The Boy in the Field), an orphan raised on her grandparents’ Belhaven farm in 19th-century Scotland struggles with her secret gift of second sight. Lizzie Craig sees images of calamities before they occur (a...
READ FULL REVIEW
ARTICLES
