The House on Fortune Street
It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain inseparable: Abigail, the actress, allegedly immune to romance, and Dara, a therapist, throwing herself into relationships...
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It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain inseparable: Abigail, the actress, allegedly immune to romance, and Dara, a therapist, throwing herself into relationships with frightening intensity. Now both believe they've found "true love." But luck seems to run out when Dara moves into Abigail's downstairs apartment. Suddenly both their friendship and their relationships are in peril, for tragedy is waiting to strike the house on Fortune Street. Told through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Margot Livesey's The House on Fortune Street is a provocative tale of lives shaped equally by chance and choice.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061451522 (0061451525)
ASIN: 61451525
Publish date: May 6th 2008
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
I read this in 2 days. I had read the first couple sentences of the book flap before I checked it out at the library. Then when I started reading, I was confused because the main character was a man whereas it was supposed to be mainly about the relationship between two women. It turns out the story...
I found the description in the book jacket to be somewhat misleading. Abby and Dara's relationship didn't feel like the major focus to me, and I certainly didn't notice anything about luck in the themes. Describing this book to others, I have said that it's about a young woman's suicide told from fo...
Livesey is exploring the disconnect the exists between our unstated private desires and feelings and the desires/feelings we choose to present to the world and the harm it does. Using four different characters (each one connected to a British author - Keats, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Bronte/Virginia...
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