Criminals - Softcover

Livesey, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312424698 ISBN 13: 9780312424695

Publisher: Picador, 1900

Synopsis

Margot Livesey's early novel Criminals is the story of adult brother and sister Ewan and Mollie and their decision to rescue an abandoned child. But is the child being rescued by these two, or abducted? Where is the line between moral and criminal behavior? Livesey paints a thrilling and devastating portrait of two people blinded by need and the desire for betterment.

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Review:

"A wonderful novel, impeccably written and thoroughly engrossing." --The New York Times Book Review

"Where do love, honesty, and responsibility intersect? . . . A provocative rumination on family and what it means to do the right thing." --Glamour

"Funny, suspenseful, and sometimes creepy." --Los Angeles Times

"One of the most surprising thrillers of the year--completely offbeat, unexpected, and unique. Margot Livesey is right up there in the realm of P. D. James." --Newsday

"A story of many kinds of love, indifference, secrecy, and blind selfishness that drives as fiercely to its surprising conclusion as any thriller." --Rosellen Brown

From the Back Cover:

A decent, harried young banker travels north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister. A single mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends. A baby girl is abandoned in a bus station and picked up by a stranger. A caller leaves threatening messages.

Brilliantly structured and tense, Criminals shows how the best intentions can have the worst results - and how families pull together, form themselves anew, and, occasionally, tear themselves apart.

'A stunning tour de force, suspenseful, beautifully observed...a wonderfully ironic meditation on the marriage of seemingly random trajectories known as fate...a great read and a literary pleasure' Jayne Anne Phillips

'One of the strongest and subtlest voices in Scottish fiction' Glasgow Herald

'Extremely compelling...superbly crafted' Time Out

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0312424698
• ISBN 13: 9780312424695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284