EVA Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey

EVA Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey

On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window--a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night, Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in their small Scottish town. As a child, Eva is often visited by two companions--a woman and a girl--invisible to everyone else save her. As she grows, their intentions become increasingly unclear: Do they wish to protect or harm her? A magical novel about loneliness, love, and the profound connection between mother and daughter, Eva Moves the Furniture fuses the simplicity of a fairy tale with the complexity of adult passions.

Margot Livesey is the author of the New York Times Notable Book, an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year, and a PEN/Winship finalist, Learning by Heart, as well as the novels Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, and Eva Moves the Furniture. She was born in Scotland and now lives in Boston, where she works as a writer in residence at Emerson College.