Margot Livesey Knihy

Rozlet Gemmy Hardyové je novodobou paralelou příběhu Jany Eyrové. Zprvu se může zdát, že si Jana pouze oblékla moderní šaty a přesunula se v čase do 60. let 20. století, ale román od Margot Livesayové není jen prostým převyprávěním jednoho z nejoblíbenějších příběhů anglické literatury, přináší zcela svébytný výraz a jazyk a mistrně propracovanou zápletku. Gemma jako by kráčela ve stopách své viktoriánské blíženkyně, přitom je naprostou osobitou, vnitřně nezávislou bytostí. Gemma Hardyová po smrti rodičů vyrůstá v rodině svého strýčka ve Skotsku. Narodila se na Islandu, kde se každý den dívala na moře, ale nic z toho si nepamatuje, dokonce ani své islandské jméno. Strýček ji pojmenoval podle vzácné mušle gemma gemma s tvrdou skořápkou, naučil ji anglicky a opatroval ji jako vlastní dceru. Jenže poté co se pod ním při bruslení probořil led, ocitla se malá Gemma ve spárech nepříliš milující tety a zlomyslných sestřenic a bratrance. Jedinou radost jí přináší příběhy z Orknejí, které jí vypráví pomocnice v domácnosti, pozorování ptáků a vidina stipendia na internátní škole v Claypoolu... Když je získá, má o krok blíž k vysněnému studiu na univerzitě. Sen se však rozplyne, když těsně před tím, než může složit maturitní zkoušku, claypoolská škola zkrachuje a ona si musí rychle hledat práci, aby se vůbec uživila. A kam jinam ji život zavede než na Orkneje, kde ji čekají osudová setkání...

The arrival of Mercury, a beautiful thoroughbred with a mysterious background, disrupts the seemingly perfect life of Donald, an optometrist, and his wife Viv, who manages a local stable. As they navigate the challenges brought by the horse, their relationships and perceptions of family are tested, revealing deeper truths about love and devotion. The story explores themes of self-discovery and the complexities of human connections, prompting Donald to reconsider what he truly understands about seeing and relationships.

A poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime

Five lives are suddenly caught up in a whirligig of increasingly dangerous emotions. This thriller is set in Scotland, London, America and Italy.

A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly -- and perhaps irrevocably -- in this surprising, suspenseful love story. Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most people and has trouble with such ordinary activities as lying, deciphering expressions, recognizing faces. Verona is thirty-seven, confident, hot-tempered, a modestly successful radio show host, unmarried, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating, they fall in love, only to be separated less than twenty-four hours later when Verona leaves abruptly, without explanation, for Boston. Both Zeke and Verona, it turns out, have complications in their lives, though not of a romantic kind. Verona's involve her brother, Henry, who is tied up in shady financial dealings. Zeke's father has had a heart attack and his mother is threatening to run away with her lover, all of which puts pressure on Zeke to take over the family grocery business. And yet he finds himself following Verona to Boston. As he pursues her, and she pursues Henry, both are forced to ask the perplexing question: Can we ever know another person?

"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 19th century Scotland Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on her beloved farm. But she does see "pictures" that foretell various incidents and accidents and 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, and when faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes what turns out to be a terrible mistake. But while Lizzie can't change the past, 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)"-- Provided by publisher

In "Der Ruf der Elstern" von Margot Livesey wird die Geschichte von Eva McEwen erzählt, deren Geburt von einem unheilvollen Omen begleitet wird. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter wächst sie mit ihrem kranken Vater und ihrer Tante auf. Mysteriöse Besucherinnen begleiten sie durch ihr Leben, während sie im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Krankenschwester arbeitet und in einen Chirurgen verliebt ist. Der Roman thematisiert Einsamkeit, Liebe und die Mutter-Tochter-Bindung.