Ebook {Epub PDF} House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

The house on Fortune Street of the title of Margot Livesey's sixth novel belongs to Abigail, an actress and founder of a small theatre company, who bought it with an inheritance from an aunt. She lives there with her boyfriend Sean, a PhD student struggling to complete his thesis on Keats, who left his wife for her.4/5(79). The house on Fortune Street of the title of Margot Livesey's sixth novel belongs to Abigail, an actress and founder of a small theatre company, who bought it with an inheritance from an aunt. She lives there with her boyfriend Sean, a PhD student struggling to complete his thesis on Keats, who left his wife for her/5(90). The house on Fortune Street of the title of Margot Livesey's sixth novel belongs to Abigail, an actress and founder of a small theatre company, who bought it with an inheritance from an aunt. She lives there with her boyfriend Sean, a PhD student struggling to complete his thesis on Keats, who left his wife for her.4/5(89).

In The House on Fortune Street, Livesey devotes one section to each character, and each section pays homage to a different classic English novel. One by one, her characters reveal their lives, and the reader's view changes as the author peels back the story. Suddenly both their friendship and their relationships are in peril, for tragedy is waiting to strike the house on Fortune Street. Told through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Margot Livesey's The House on Fortune Street is a provocative tale of lives shaped equally by chance and choice. In her new novel, "The House on Fortune Street," Margot Livesey brings nuance, context and a cool head to this hot-button issue through detailed portraits of two friends in their 30s: Abigail.

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. It is my good fortune to have discovered Margot Livesey’s The House on Fortune Street. It has many of the things I love in a book: a London setting, allusions to British Literature, precise and lyrical language and a mesmerizing story. Yum. The titular house is owned by Abigail, who bought it with money inherited from an aunt. In her new novel, “The House on Fortune Street,” Margot Livesey brings nuance, context and a cool head to this hot-button issue through detailed portraits of two friends in their 30s: Abigail.