Margot Livesey

Please join us on Sunday, February 26 at 3pm as Boston-area author Margot Livesey presents her most recent novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy. At once an homage to and a variation on the beloved classic Jane Eyre, this take on an iron-willed orphan girl, determined to find her place in the world despite ... (meer)the odds stacked against her, is set in Livesey's native Scotland in the early 1960s. Margot Livesey is the author of the novels The House on Fortune Street (which won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award), Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, and Banishing Verona. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Livesey was born in Scotland and grew up on the edge of the Highlands; she is a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College.

Billerica-based writing coach Sherry Ellis's author interviews have appeared in Poets & Writers and Agni, among other places. Illuminating Fiction collects nineteen of the best of them. To celebrate the book’s release, Ellis will interview renowned novelists Julia Glass (Three Junes, I See You ... (meer)Everywhere) and Margot Livesey (Homework, House On Fortune Street, Eva Moves The Furniture) live in our basement!

Skyline Salon

“A master of mood and atmosphere” (New York Times), Colin Harrison is the author of six thrillers, including Manhattan Nocturne, The Havana Room, and his latest, The Finder, a tale of global intrigue that reveals New York in all of its 21st-century ... (meer)splendor, greed, violence and desire. He spent six years as the deputy editor of Harper’s magazine and is now vice president and senior editor at Scribner.

Appearing with Margot Livesey

Cosponsored by Elm Street Books

Margot Livesy will read from her novel The House on Fortune Street.

"Livesey’s latest novel, The House on Fortune Street, offers a surprisingly provocative detective story of the heart. Abigail Taylor and Dora MacLeod have been fast friends since they met at St Andrews University. They are an unlikely pair. Abigail is an actress who uses her charms both on and ... (meer)off the stage. She believes herself to be immune to love and is confident that she controls her life. Dara, a counselor, is convinced that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood experience. She throws herself into romantic relationships with frightening intensity. Now, surprisingly, each of them seems to have found “true love.” But, soon after Dara moves into Abigail’s house on Fortune Street, trouble threatens their relationships and their friendship."