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Consuming... Explores themes of honesty and understanding by showing the impact that obsessions-grief, rapacity-can have on a marriage. The New Yorker You'll be glued to the page. People, Pick of the Week A brilliantly paced contemporary adventure. Elle Margot Livesey should be better known. She has a commercial storyteller's talent for sustained suspense and a penchant for the life-changing cruel or criminal act. ... That a gun goes off at a crucial moment ... is not the reason to pick it up. Intricately convincing relationships, and accomplished sentence-making, are. -- Mark Kamine The Wall Street Journal Mercury is a haunting, meticulous inquiry into the nature of blindness-its insidious power to corrupt marital trust, even between those with perfect vision. Margot Livesey is a searingly intelligent writer at the height of her powers. -- Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad Mercury is as luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered as only Margot Livesey can accomplish. I only wished it were twice as long. -- Dennis Lehane Mercury demonstrates Tolstoy's dictum: all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. The Stevensons find themselves upended by a horse - a magnificent horse that sets off a chain of deceit and crime. This powerful novel reveals the fragility of life when tested by the shock of genuine passion. -- Ben Fountain A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2016 selection A Bookpage Best Books of 2016 selection A Barnes and Noble Best Books of 2016 selection A Seattle Times Best Books of 2016 selection

A Seattle Times Best Books of 2016 selection A Barnes and Noble Best Books of 2016 selection A Bookpage Best Books of 2016 selection A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2016 selection Mercury demonstrates Tolstoy's dictum: all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. The Stevensons find themselves upended by a horse - a magnificent horse that sets off a chain of deceit and crime. This powerful novel reveals the fragility of life when tested by the shock of genuine passion. -- Ben Fountain Mercury is as luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered as only Margot Livesey can accomplish. I only wished it were twice as long. -- Dennis Lehane Mercury is a haunting, meticulous inquiry into the nature of blindness-its insidious power to corrupt marital trust, even between those with perfect vision. Margot Livesey is a searingly intelligent writer at the height of her powers. -- Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad Margot Livesey should be better known. She has a commercial storyteller's talent for sustained suspense and a penchant for the life-changing cruel or criminal act. ... That a gun goes off at a crucial moment ... is not the reason to pick it up. Intricately convincing relationships, and accomplished sentence-making, are. -- Mark Kamine * The Wall Street Journal * A brilliantly paced contemporary adventure. * Elle * You'll be glued to the page. * People, Pick of the Week * Consuming.... Explores themes of honesty and understanding by showing the impact that obsessions-grief, rapacity-can have on a marriage. * The New Yorker *

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Margot Livesey is a New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic. She is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and her novel The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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