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The Road from Belhaven: A novel Audiobook
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland
Growing 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. As her “pictures” foretell various incidents and accidents, she begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it.
Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her. Why have the adults around her not revealed that the touch of a hand can change everything? After following Louis to Glasgow, though, she learns the limits of his devotion. Faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes a terrible mistake. But her second sight may allow her a second chance.
Luminous and transporting, The Road from Belhaven once again displays “the marvelous control of a writer who conjures equally well the tangible, sensory world . . . and the mysteries, stranger and wilder, that flicker at the border of that world.” —The Boston Globe
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"Margot Livesey is an incandescent writer, generous and graceful, always imbuing her characters with astonishing humanity and grace. I love all Livesey’s books, but The Road From Belhaven has become my new favorite; I felt so deeply for Lizzie that I worried about her fate with the same love and indignation and hope I would have for a flesh-and-blood friend of my youth. This book is a cold, clear, perfect lake."
— Lauren Groff, New York Times best-selling author of The Vaster Wilds
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This novel casts a spell. The writing here reminds me of Claire Keegan's Foster and Alice Munro at her unsentimental best. Rich with tangible detail, The Road from Belhaven is magical as well, not least in the way it stops time for the reader. I inhaled it in one day.
— Allegra Goodman, New York Times best-selling author of Sam -
“[An] unconventional coming-of-age tale with engaging characters embedded in an absorbing story.
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“Margot Livesey is a treasure: a writer who understands the magic and mysteries of the human soul, and brings that wisdom to novels that are both riveting and lush. The Road from Belhaven is a smart, profound, and beautiful book that draws you in and holds you tight.
— Chris Bohjalian, New York Times best-selling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch -
“The Road from Belhaven is a marvel. In this radiantly beautiful novel, Margot Livesey introduces us to Lizzie Craig, an unforgettable 19th-century Scottish clairvoyant haunted by her future as much as her past. Livesey has crafted a story as thrilling as it is thoughtful, one animated by life’s fundamental question: how do we change?
— Anthony Marra, New York Times best-selling author of Mercury Pictures Presents“Margot Livesey is a great, gifted storyteller, with a moral compass of pure gold and the necessary clear eyes to understand and love us all, with our mistakes and misunderstandings and damages. She holds the world of Belhaven Farm up to her bright, sharp vision and the light and the shadows dance for generations. -
“Powerful…. With the sociological complexity of an Edith Wharton novel, Livesey portrays Lizzie butting up against gendered restrictions on her freedom …. Livesey’s lyrical perfection comes at no expense to the plot, which barrels like a runaway train. This is a gem.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review -
“Powerful…. With the sociological complexity of an Edith Wharton novel, Livesey portrays Lizzie butting up against gendered restrictions on her freedom …. Livesey’s lyrical perfection comes at no expense to the plot, which barrels like a runaway train. This is a gem.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review “[An] unconventional coming-of-age tale with engaging characters embedded in an absorbing story. -
“Margot Livesey shines bright, as always – giving us both the beauty of the world and the roiling tumult of the souls within it. Bewitching and seductive, The Road from Belhaven is a vision.
— Rebecca Makkai, New York Times best-selling author of I Have Some Questions for You and The Great Believers -
“Powerful…. With the sociological complexity of an Edith Wharton novel, Livesey portrays Lizzie butting up against gendered restrictions on her freedom …. Livesey’s lyrical perfection comes at no expense to the plot, which barrels like a runaway train. This is a gem.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review "Livesey’s vibrant imagery and profound compassion deliver a tragic coming-of-age novel that resonates with her gifted protagonist's resourcefulness.
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About Margot Livesey
Margot Livesey is a New York Times bestselling author. 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. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
About Ell Potter
Ell Potter is a voice talent and audiobook narrator who has won an AudioFile Earphones Award and was a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best mystery thriller narration.