Free Read Ebook The Boy in the Field

The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous unforgettable and perfectly rendered” (Dennis Lehane) novel—a poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime.One September afternoon in 1999 teenagers Matthew Zoe and Duncan Lang are walking home from school whThe New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous unforgettable and perfectly rendered” (Dennis Lehane) novel—a poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime.One September afternoon in 1999 teenagers Matthew Zoe and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention the boys life is saved. In the aftermath all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew the oldest becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant secretly searching the local town with the victims brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford looking at men and one of them a visiting American graduate student looks back. Duncan the youngest who has seldom thought about being adopted suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents marriage. Over the course of the autumn as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart.Written with the deceptive simplicity and power of a fable The Boy in the Field showcases Margot Liveseys unmatched ability to “tell her tale masterfully with intelligence tenderness and a shrewd understanding of all our mercurial human impulses” (Lily King author of Euphoria).(less)