The Boy in the Field, Margot Livesey
The Boy in the Field, Margot Livesey
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The Boy in the Field
A Novel

Author: Margot Livesey

Narrator: Imogen Church

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/11/2020


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered” (Dennis Lehane) novel—a poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime.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.Written with the deceptive simplicity and power of a fable, The Boy in the Field showcases Margot Livesey’s unmatched ability to “tell her tale masterfully, with intelligence, tenderness, and a shrewd understanding of all our mercurial human impulses” (Lily King, author of Euphoria).

About Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals, and Homework. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on July 28, 2021

The closer they got to him, the slower they walked. None of them spoke. Glinting bluebottles and smaller flies circled the boy. His hair was dark, his skin very pale. He wore a deep blue shirt, a color Duncan would later call cobalt, black shorts, and what appeared to be long red socks. At the lo......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on December 30, 2021

Three siblings: Malcolm, Zoe, Duncan who are young teenagers wait their father to pick them up after school. When their father gets late, they decide to 5 miles long walk to their home because they think they can catch him at the road but they don’t! Instead of spotting their father’s car, they spo......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on August 16, 2020

This is the book you need right now. I am so glad I didn't pass this one by - what a wonderful story of three siblings whose lives are forever changed after finding a victim of a violent crime in a field on the way home from school. (Nothing graphic is written regarding the crime, so please do not b......more

Goodreads review by Jill on July 07, 2020

When people are forced to cope with traumatic situations, they sometimes reassure themselves by believing that everything happens for a reason. But what if life is causal? What if something happens and other “somethings” just organically flow from that event? Margot Livesey sets up an early situation......more

Goodreads review by Julie on January 31, 2021

Elegant, chilling, and full of captivating humanity, The Boy in the Field slivers into the mind like a tiny fragment of glass into the skin: imperceptible until suddenly you can't think about anything else. Just so we're clear: this isn't a genre mystery. It is possible to have a story with a random......more