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The House on Fortune Street
By Margot Livesey
Harper, 311 pages, $24.95
Friends with wonderful taste have raved about Margot Livesey’s novels for years. This is the sixth novel by the Scotland-born writer who lives and teaches in the U.S., and its spell was irresistible, sending me back to her earlier work. I had read, and respected, one of those, “Eva Moves the Furniture,” but this new novel is dazzling. As reviewer Conan Putnam wrote in Books last month, “It’s rare for a novel to contain characters as alive as the ideas they are created to explore, but … ‘The House on Fortune Street’ is one of the best of this kind to come along in a while.”
