The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey

The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey

Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective - she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family. As her 'pictures' foretell various incidents and accidents, she begins to realise a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her. Why have the adults around her not revealed that the touch of a hand can change everything? After following Louis to Glasgow, though, she learns the limits of his devotion. Faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes a terrible mistake. But her second sight may allow her a second chance. Luminous and transporting, The Road from Belhaven once again displays 'the marvelous control of a writer who conjures equally well the tangible, sensory world... and the mysteries, stranger and wilder, that flicker at the border of that world.' - The Boston Globe

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.

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ISBN 13	9780593537046
ISBN 10	0593537041
Title	The Road from Belhaven
Author	Margot Livesey
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2024-02-06
Number of pages	272
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