The Boy in the Field: 'A superb family drama' DAILY MAIL
Aug 2020 · Hachette UK
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'Exquisite'
New York Times
'A superb family drama'
Daily Mail
'A searingly intelligent writer'
Jennifer Egan
'A twist of eerie magic'
Tessa Hadley
'A singular, extraordinary delight'
Claire Lombardo
'Every novel of Margot Livesey's is a joyous discovery'
Alice Sebold
'A tender, deeply humane exploration of what it means to hold another's heart in yours with tenderness and mercy'
Elizabeth Wetmore
One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang 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 are irrevocably changed.
Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage.
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.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Daily Mail and O Magazine Book of the year.
New York Times
'A superb family drama'
Daily Mail
'A searingly intelligent writer'
Jennifer Egan
'A twist of eerie magic'
Tessa Hadley
'A singular, extraordinary delight'
Claire Lombardo
'Every novel of Margot Livesey's is a joyous discovery'
Alice Sebold
'A tender, deeply humane exploration of what it means to hold another's heart in yours with tenderness and mercy'
Elizabeth Wetmore
One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang 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 are irrevocably changed.
Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage.
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.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Daily Mail and O Magazine Book of the year.
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About the author
Margot Livesey is a New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic. She is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and her novel The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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