Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels including The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, and Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals, and Homework. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic. In The Boy in the Field (HarperCollins) Margot Livesey tells the coming-of-age story of teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang. One September afternoon in 1999 they are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings each engage in a deeply personal search and they are irrevocably changed. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart. Publishers Weekly called it “A distinctive blend of literary fiction and psychological thriller…. Precise prose, cool observation, and tight pacing will keep readers turning the pages. This is a memorable twist on the coming-of-age tale.”