The Missing World

Literary Fiction

Author: Margot Livesey

What if–by a stroke of fortune–you could start afresh, could wipe away that catastrophic blunder in your past? And to what lengths would you go to establish that in fact you’d done nothing wrong at all? After an accident robs Hazel of three years’ worth of memory, just such an opportunity is granted to her ex-boyfriend Jonathan. What follows in Margot Livesey’s The Missi….Read More

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