The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

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.

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.