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The House on Fortune Street:
Margot Livesey
Harper
May 2008
On Sale: May 6, 2008
320 pages ISBN: 0061451525 EAN: 9780061451522 Hardcover
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It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara
MacLeod when they meet at St. Andrews 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, believes
herself immune to love. Dara, a counselor, is convinced
that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood; she
throws herself into romantic relationships with frightening
intensity. Yet now each seems to have found "true love"—
another stroke of luck?—Abigail with her academic
boyfriend, Sean, and Dara with a tall, dark violinist named
Edward, who literally falls at her feet. But soon after
Dara moves into Abigail's downstairs apartment, trouble
threatens both relationships, and their friendship. For Abigail it comes in the form of an anonymous letter to
Sean claiming that she's been unfaithful; for Dara, a
reconciliation with her distant father, Cameron, who left
the family when Dara was ten, reawakens complicated
feelings. Through four ingeniously interlocking narratives—
Sean's, Cameron's, Dara's, and Abigail's—we gradually
understand how these characters' lives are shaped by both
chance and determination. Whatever the source, there is no
mistaking the tragedy that strikes the house on Fortune
Street. "Everyone," claims Abigail, "has a book or a writer who's
the key to their life." As this statement reverberates
through each of the narratives, Margot Livesey skillfully
reveals how luck—good and bad—plays a vital role in our
lives, and how the search for truth can prove a dangerous
undertaking. Written with her characteristic elegance and
wit, The House on Fortune Street offers a surprisingly
provocative detective story of the heart.
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