The Road from Belhaven
ISBN-13: 9780593537046
Author(s): Margot Livesey
Subjects: FBA, Fiction
Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Publisher Imprint: Knopf
Publication Date: 06-02-2024
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£25.99
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About the book
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 realise 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