FICTION
Released: Jan. 24, 2012
"Nicely, touchingly done, and the familiar story exerts its reliably magnetic pull, but fans of Jane Eyre will wonder why."
A clever orphan girl, mistreated by relatives, then sent to suffer cruelly at boarding school, finds heartbreak and eventual heartsease with a brooding older man. Sound familiar?
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FICTION
Released: May 6, 2008
"Moving, gruffly tender and piercingly truthful. Livesey has plenty of critical respect already, but her talents merit a broad popular audience as well."
Love proves a destructive force in the lives of four Brits who have divergent perspectives on their interrelated dilemmas in another probing, satisfying novel from Livesey (
Banishing Verona, 2004, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 3, 2004
"Like all Livesey's novels: notable for her penetrating knowledge of the human heart coupled with respect for its essential mysteries, both explored in elegant, evocative prose."
A housepainter with Asperger's syndrome and a pregnant, unmarried radio host meet under false pretenses, have sex, and then are separated for nearly the duration of this unsparing yet cautiously hopeful story examining love's many varieties.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2001
"Pitiless, deeply moving, and terrifying: another flawless work from an uncompromising artist."
A haunting and haunted fourth novel from Livesey (
The Missing World, 2000, etc.), this about a woman whose life is accompanied by invisible "companions" who shape her destiny in ways both helpful and harmful.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 18, 2000
"A somber novel, possessing great cumulative force."
A penetrating analysis of the ways in which desire misleads and entangles us, set in modern London, by Scottish author Livesey (Criminals,1996, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 8, 1996
"A wonderful labyrinth of good and evil, funny and sad, but be prepared: There's really no way out. (First printing of 50,000; Literary Guild alternate selection; author tour)"
The discovery of a baby left in the men's room of a bus station exposes all kinds of human foibles—including, rather uncomfortably, our own—in this trenchant, tragicomic second novel from Livesey (Homework, 1990).
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