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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I love this author's writing, particularly the first book of hers I had read [book:Eva Moves the Furniture|824768]. When I found this yesterday at a book sale, it seemed the perfect book for my plane ride home. It was quite good - the transition of the Jonathan from protagonist to antagonist was interesting; I despised him by the end of the story. The various forms of selfishness in nearly all hpthe characters made me like the human race just a little bit less for a while. I did find the story line of the roofer-as-hero to be too far fetched for my liking, but as a character, he was quite satisfying and redemptive amidst the others. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Following the acclaimed Criminals comes a spellbinding new novel that confirms Margot Livesey's place "right up there," as Liz Smith wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "in the realm of P. D. James and the esteemed Patricia Highsmith." What if â?? by stroke of fortune â?? you could start afresh, could wipe away that catastrophic blunder in your past? And to what lengths would you go to establish that in fact you'd done nothing wrong at all? After an accident robs Hazel of three years' worth of memory, just such an opportunity is granted to Jonathan, undone by his betrayal of this woman, whom he professes to love above all. While he begins to rewrite their history, two other misfits â?? an American sojourner and a luckless English actress â?? knock about London, each of them haunted by indelible memories they would much rather forget. Eventually their hopes of redemption draw them toward Jonathan's house, where Hazel has become a virtual pri No library descriptions found. |
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While Jonathan begins to rewrite his and Hazel's history together, two other misfits - an American sojourner and an unlucky English actress - travel around London, each of them haunted by indelible memories which they would much rather forget. Eventually their hopes for redemption draw them toward Jonathan and Hazel, who has become a virtual prisoner of Jonathan's most cherished whims and desires. The story that follows is a brilliantly inverted love story: a story which chronicles one man's desperate attempts to realize and rationalize a lie, and a woman's harrowing attempts to recognize the truth.
I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Margot Livesey is, in my opinion, a terrific writer, and she captures the essence of characters beautifully. As a matter of fact, the character of Charlotte is so like my sister-in-law, they could have been twins. I give The Missing World: A Novel by Margot Livesey a definite A! ( )