Margot Livesey – författare

It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain inseparable: Abigail, the actress, allegedly immune to romance, and Dara, a therapist, throwing herself into relationships with frightening intensity. Now both believe they''ve found "true love." But luck seems to run out when Dara moves into Abigail''s downstairs apartment. Suddenly both their friendship and their relationships are in peril, for tragedy is waiting to strike the house on Fortune Street.

Told through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Margot Livesey''s The House on Fortune Street is a provocative tale of lives shaped equally by chance and choice.

A Kirkus Reviews ''Best Fiction of 2016'' selectionA Bookpage ''Best Books of 2016'' selectionA Barnes and Noble ''Best Books of 2016'' selectionA Seattle Times ''Best Books of 2016'' selection''Mercury is as luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered as only Margot Livesey can accomplish.'' Dennis Lehane An optometrist in suburban Boston, Donald is sure that he and his wife, Viv, are both devoted to their two children and each other. Then Mercury - a gorgeous young thoroughbred with a murky past - arrives at Viv''s stables, and as she begins to ride him, dreams she had harboured and relinquished for the sake of her family are rekindled; dreams that soon morph into consuming desire. As her infatuation with the thoroughbred escalates to obsession, it seems there is nothing - and no one - she will allow to stop her this time around. Though Donald may have 20/20 vision, he is slow to notice how profoundly Viv has changed, and how much these changes threaten their quiet, secure world. But by the time he does, it is too late to stop the catastrophic collision of Viv''s determined ambitions ...''Margot Livesey is a searingly intelligent writer at the height of her powers.'' Jennifer Egan

''Exquisite''New York Times''A superb family drama''Daily Mail''A searingly intelligent writer'' Jennifer Egan''A twist of eerie magic''Tessa Hadley''A singular, extraordinary delight'' Claire Lombardo''Every novel of Margot Livesey''s is a joyous discovery''Alice Sebold''A tender, deeply humane exploration of what it means to hold another''s heart in yours with tenderness and mercy''Elizabeth WetmoreOne September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy''s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed.Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim''s brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents'' marriage.Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Daily Mail and O Magazine Book of the year.