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The Flight of Gemma Hardy

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Margot Livesey

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The Flight of Gemma Hardy
 

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•Author Website: www.margotlivesey.com

Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey is the acclaimed author of the novels 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. Livesey was born in Scotland and grew up on the edge of the Highlands. She lives in the Boston area and is a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.


 

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Flight of Gemma Hardy, The EPB
Flight of Gemma Hardy, The EPB
Margot Livesey
  • E-Book
  • 9780062064240
  • 1/24/2012
  • $13.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
The Flight of Gemma Hardy LP
The Flight of Gemma Hardy LP
Margot Livesey
  • Large Print
  • 9780062107206
  • 1/24/2012
  • $26.99 ($29.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
The House on Fortune Street
The House on Fortune Street
Margot Livesey
  • Trade PB
  • 9780061451546
  • 5/5/2009
  • $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
House on Fortune Street, The
House on Fortune Street, The
Margot Livesey
  • E-Book
  • 9780061828744
  • 10/13/2009
  • $11.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 

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"A delight....Livesey is a lovely, fluid writer."


- Sarah Towers, New York Times Book Review
"A cunning adaptation."


- Liza Nelson, O, the Oprah Magazine
"Absorbing..Ms. Livesey writes lovely, understated prose.[her] treks through the novel's pleasing natural landscapes.are almost as engaging as her navigation of Gemma's restless psyche."


- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"Livesey delivers a suspenseful, curl-up-by-the-fire romance with a willfully determined protagonist who's worthy of her literary role model."


- People
"Jane Eyre gets a terrific modern makeover..Livesey works some sort of magic in The Flight of Gemma Hardy, which is too entertaining to be superfluous, too wise in its understanding of human nature to be a mere retread."


- Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
"Livesey has pulled off the near-impossible task that the homage begs an author to do: create an original, fresh work that shines in its own light, while bringing an established, esteemed work to the attention of new readers, and showing off previously unseen facets to its fans.."


- Meredith Maran, Boston Globe
"Livesey follows Brontė's form, but so convincingly does she create her own character's life and surroundings that the original soon recedes, its story a beloved, familiar body dressed in an entirely new and vibrant wardrobe."


- Atlantic Monthly
"Marvelous....Gemma Hardy is one of those page turners in which you occasionally have to wrest yourself away from the plot to admire the language."


- Kristin Ohlson, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A brilliantly paced contemporary adventure about a headstrong orphan's struggle to claim a place for her generous heart in a secret-laden, sometimes loveless world."


- Lisa Shea, Elle
"The portrait of a delicate, iron-willed girl, an orphan and a heroine in the grand tradition.. Here as in all of Livesey's novels, the real treasure is her gift for exploring the unreduced human psyche with all its radiant contradictions, mercurial insights, and desperate generosities."


- David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
"In The Flight of Gemma Hardy, the fabulous Margot Livesey has written a book steeped in remote landscapes, secret histories, and great love. Orphan Gemma is a modern day Jane Eyre, thoroughly engaging and bracingly unsentimental. The prose is meticulous, the tale transporting. Trust me, you will love this book."


- Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Wit's End