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Margot Livesey skillfully reveals how luckgood and badplays a vital role in our lives, and how the search for truth can prove a dangerous undertaking. It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at St. Andrews University and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain an unlikely pair. Abigail, an actress who confidently uses her charms both on- and offstage, believes herself immune to love. Dara, a counselor, is convinced that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood; she throws herself into romantic relationships with frightening intensity. Yet now each seems to have found "true love"another stroke of luck?Abigail with her academic boyfriend, Sean, and Dara with a tall, dark violinist named Edward, who literally falls at her feet. But soon after Dara moves into Abigail's downstairs apartment, trouble threatens both relationships, and their friendship. For Abigail it comes in the form of an anonymous letter to Sean claiming that she's been unfaithful; for Dara, a reconciliation with her distant father, Cameron, who left the family when Dara was ten, reawakens complicated feelings. Through four ingeniously interl

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Author

Margot Livesey

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061470349

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.53 / 5 (1,655 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14