MARGOT LIVESEY is a literary pointillist whose prose is both impressionistic and as precise as a geometry equation.
Her latest novel, The Boy in the Field (HarperCollins), is a mystery and bildungsroman, with three characters sharing center stage: Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang, teenagers living with their parents outside Oxford, England. Their childhood has been idyllic—until one day, after their father fails to pick them up at school, they stumble upon a boy lying stabbed and unconscious. Their individual responses to the discovery—which has the effect of jarring them out of their youthful innocence—alter their paths in unpredictable ways.
Tiny piece by tiny piece, Livesey builds an intimate universe that expands and expands “until it grows large enough, almost, to keep everything else at bay.”…
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O, The Oprah (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2020