Mercury (28 page)

MARGOT LIVESEY
IS THE
New York Times
bestselling author of the novels
The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals
, and
Homework
. Her work has appeared in the
New Yorker, Vogue
, and the
Atlantic
, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
The House on Fortune Street
won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Livesey was born in Scotland and grew up on the edge of the Highlands. She lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Learning by Heart

Homework

Criminals

The Missing World

Eva Moves the Furniture

Banishing Verona

The House on Fortune Street

The Flight of Gemma Hardy

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

MERCURY.
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FIRST EDITION

EPub Edition SEPTEMBER 2016 ISBN 9780062437532

ISBN: 978-0-06-243750-1

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