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Jun 17, 2013
This absorbing contemporary novel opens multiple perspectives on the life of Dara MacLeod, a young London therapist, partly by paying subtle homage to literary figures (Keats, Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll) and works (Jane Eyre, Great Expectations). Through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Livesey skillfully reveals how luck—good and bad —plays a vital role in our lives, and how our childhood legacies may be harder to leave behind than we hope.