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Mar 7, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Margot Livesey
Margot Livesey’s The Road from Belhaven is part coming-of-age saga and part love story, with a dash of the supernatural thrown in. Some authors might find such a balance hard to maintain, but not this one. Livesey’s mastery of intricate detail, relatable characters, and strong central tension makes her new novel a satisfying read. The story centers on a young Scottish woman, Lizzie Craig, and her second sight.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Margot Livesey |NYBanana Muffins
What would many of us not give to receive regular glimpses of the future, clear-as-a-blue-sky pictures of events that have not yet come to pass? This kind of “second sight” has long been a literary interest of the Scottish novelist Margot Livesey. Her 2001 novel “Eva Moves the Furniture” features this ability and her most recent novel, “The Road from Belhaven” includes a character with this “gift” as well.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
entertainment-mag.com | Margot Livesey
Lizzie Craig has a gift: She sees “pictures” of events before they take place. It happens first when she’s 10, with a vision in which her grandfather’s scythe slips from a whetstone and injures his leg. It’s the tail end of the 19th century in Fife, rural Scotland, where Lizzie is brought up by her grandparents on Belhaven Farm. Her pictures, more often than not, are premonitions of accidents and disasters: a hurt leg, a wheel coming off a cart, a tree hit by lightning.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Margot Livesey
‘It never dawned on me this was a scam,’ wife cries as $31k drained from accounts – she thought she was talking to Apple
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Margot Livesey
I grew up in the peculiar environment of a boys’ private school on the edge of the Scottish Highlands; my father taught mathematics and geography and was a confirmed bachelor. Then, at the age of fifty, he surprised everyone by marrying one of the few women in that world: Eva McEwen, the school nurse. A year later, I was born. Eva died when I was two and a half and he went on to marry the next school nurse.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Margot Livesey |Sara Ackerman |Gabriella Lepore
1927. Olivia “Livy” West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race—a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawai’i—she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Margot Livesey |Sara Ackerman |Gabriella Lepore
The book is in stores on Tuesday, February 6th from Knopf. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3tvYz4lGrowing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective—she doesn’t, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Tania De Rozario |Margot Livesey |Sara Ackerman |Gabriella Lepore
The book is in stores on Tuesday, Feb. 6th from Harper. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3uYNppb Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to “banish the evil” from Tania.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Margot Livesey |Sara Ackerman |Gabriella Lepore |Hannah Bonam-Young
To purchase a copy click on the link. https://amzn.to/47qVCQYWhen people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn’t hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services’ financial evaluation, she is faced with a choice: see her baby sister placed in foster care or participate in CPS’s new initiative, where two prospective guardians join households to qualify.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Margot Livesey |Sara Ackerman |Gabriella Lepore
The Lost Dresses of Italy by M. A. McLaughlin. The book is in stores on Tuesday, Feb. 6th. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3RmR0VkVerona, 1947. Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy with one thing on her mind: three pristine Victorian dresses, once owned by the famous poet Christina Rossetti. Hidden away in a trunk for nearly a century, they were recently discovered at the Fondazione Museo Menigatti and Marianne’s expertise is needed before they go on exhibit.
