Margot Livesey

In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.…

— Margot Livesey

“All along, he'd been looking in the wrong direction, trying to make time stand still, to re-create the past, but everything in…

— Margot Livesey

“Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.”

— Margot Livesey

In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and…

— Margot Livesey

Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.

— Margot Livesey

Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at…

— Margot Livesey

“She knew she oughtn't to scold but she couldn't bear such a hyperbole. People couldn't live without food and air or shelter…

— Margot Livesey

“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life”

— Margot Livesey

In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous,…

— Margot Livesey

Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a…

— Margot Livesey

In The Moon, Come to Earth Philip Graham takes us on the best kind of journey, as he simultaneously reveals the fascinating…

— Margot Livesey

“so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way…

— Margot Livesey

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

— Margot Livesey

“If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer…

— Margot Livesey

“loves was about the people who loved you”

— Margot Livesey

“...you can molest someone without touching them, without even saying anything. Just the inappropriate desire can be harmful.”

— Margot Livesey

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity…

— Margot Livesey

“Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.”

— Margot Livesey

“Dialogue is a wolf in sheep’s clothing—often pretending to be woolly and vague, actually all teeth and meaning. Even”

— Margot Livesey

“She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What…

— Margot Livesey

“..he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part…

— Margot Livesey

If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of…

— Margot Livesey

In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches…

— Margot Livesey

“Since the accident, Jonathan had noticed, she held on to things, a doorframe, a chair, as it either she or the world…

— Margot Livesey

A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,…

— Margot Livesey