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Margot Livesey


Scotland (b.1953)

Margot Livesey is a Scottish born writer. She is the author of six novels, numerous short stories, and essays on the craft of writing fiction.Livesey came to North America during the 1970s where she worked to get her fiction published, reportedly because her boyfriend at the time was also a writer. Livesey's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and a number of literary quarterlies. She is also the Fiction Editor at Ploughshares, a renowned literary journal. She currently lives in the Boston area and is the writer-in-residence at Emerson College.
 

Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
February 2024

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The Road from Belhaven
 
Novels
   Homework (1990)
   Criminals (1996)
   The Missing World (2000)
   Eva Moves the Furniture (2001)
   Banishing Verona (2004)
   The House on Fortune Street (2008)
   The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012)
   Mercury (2016)
   The Boy in the Field (2020)
   The Road from Belhaven (2024)
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Collections
   Learning by Heart (1986)
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Non fiction show
 
Margot Livesey recommends
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Float Up, Sing Down (2024)
Laird Hunt
"What a delight to spend a day with the inhabitants of Bright Creek, their longings and lusts, their memories. Laird Hunt writes so brilliantly about the quotidian-why a woman would leave a tin of paprika on a gravestone; why a boy would be devoted to this headband-and in doing so, he reveals so much else. Float Up, Sing Down is a shimmering, magical book."
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Mercury (2024)
Amy Jo Burns
"In her new novel Mercury, Amy Jo Burns writes passionately about the hard realities of work and money, sex and love and what happens when you don't notice that your mother has come home without her shoes. Long after I finished reading, I found myself thinking about her complicated characters and especially about the amazing Marley, a heroine for all seasons who can fix a roof, do the accounts, home school a brother in law, make a family. What a lovely, satisfying novel."
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Broughtupsy (2024)
Christina Cooke
"What a brilliant novel Broughtupsy is with its crackling dialogue and vivid descriptions of the sights, sounds and smells of Kingston--don't read it when you're hungry! I longed for nothing more than for Akua, the passionate, opinionated heroine, to safely navigate the vicissitudes of loss and sisterhood. A stunning debut."

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