Description - The Road from Belhaven: A novel by Margot Livesey
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, an unforgettable novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in nineteenth-century Scotland
"Bewitching and seductive." -Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You . "Magical." -Allegra Goodman, author of Sam . "This book is a cold, clear, perfect lake." -Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, an unforgettable novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in nineteenth-century Scotland
"Bewitching and seductive." -Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You . "Magical." -Allegra Goodman, author of Sam . "This book is a cold, clear, perfect lake." -Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds
Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family. As her "pictures" foretell various incidents and accidents, she 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. Faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes a terrible mistake. But her second sight may allow her a second chance.
Luminous and transporting, The Road from Belhaven "is a marvel... a story as thrilling as it is thoughtful, one animated by life's fundamental question- How do we change?" (Anthony Marra, author of Mercury Pictures Presents)
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