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May 3, 2009
The House on Fortune Street
ABOUT THE BOOK
It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail and Dara when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain an unlikely pair: Abigail, an actress who confidently uses her charms both on and offstage, is reluctant to commit. Dara, a therapist, throws herself into every relationship with frightening intensity. Yet each seems—another stroke of luck?—to have found "True love": Abigail with her academic boyfriend, and Dara with a tall, dark violinist. Soon, however, trouble threatens both relationships, and their friendship. For Abigail it comes in the form of an anonymous letter; for Dara, a reconciliation with her distant father reawakens complicated childhood feelings. Whatever the source of their problems, there is no mistaking the tragedy that strikes the house on Fortune Street. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Margot Livesey grew up in a boys' private school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught, and her mother, Eva, was the school nurse. After taking a B.A. in English and philosophy at the University of York in England she spent most of her twenties working in shops and restaurants and learning to write. Her first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then Margot has published six novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street. Margot has taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Cleveland State, Emerson College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Tufts University, the University of California at Irvine, the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers, and Williams College. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists' Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Margot is currently a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College. She lives with her husband, a painter, in Cambridge, MA, and goes back to London and Scotland whenever she can. Alice Sebold says, "Every novel of Margot Livesey's is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery." BEYOND THE BOOK Harper Collins Reading Guide New York Times Book Review Los Angeles Times Book Review Book Info
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