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The Boy in the Field: A Novel

The Boy in the Field: A Novel

Author Margot Livesey
Publisher Harper Perennial
Publication Date 2021-07-27
Section New Titles - Paperback / Fiction
Type New
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780062946409

The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another characteristically "luminous" (Boston Globe) novel—a poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime.

“Margot Livesey has the unique ability to find the hidden darkness beneath the surface of our lives, no matter how deeply buried.”— Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed.

Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim’s brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, returns her gaze. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents’ marriage. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, the boy remains a mysterious force in their lives.

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