The Road from Belhaven: A novel
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- Synopsis
- From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland&“Bewitching and seductive.&” —Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You • &“A treasure: a writer who understands the magic and mysteries of the human soul." —Chris Bohjalian, author of Hour of the Witch • &“This book is a cold, clear, perfect lake." —Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster WildsGrowing 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 once again displays &“the marvelous control of a writer who conjures equally well the tangible, sensory world . . . and the mysteries, stranger and wilder, that flicker at the border of that world.&” —The Boston Globe
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593537053
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780593537046
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 02/06/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Margot Livesey
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.