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How these wildly different individuals converge is only one of The Missing World's many exhilarations. Livesey slowly, tantalizingly has her characters reveal themselves as they bump up against reality. She also has an eye--and a perfect ear--for evasions and illusion. Jonathan is particularly adept at turning wish fulfillment into an extreme sport, convincing himself that subterfuge is the only way to go:
He wanted Hazel better, of course, but wasn't that like desiring his own banishment? What he really wanted was for her to recover not merely from the accident but from the delusions that had carried her away from him.Energy, as Blake puts it, is eternal delight, and with its plethora of farcical entrances and exits, The Missing World has energy to burn. Yet just as often Livesey conquers by oddball understatement. Emerging from her coma, Hazel "opened her eyes and gazed up at the four of them. The colour of her irises had deepened, as if the long twilight of the last week had taken up permanent residence in her brain." With her predilection for the narrative ambush, Livesey has been likened to P.D. James and Patricia Highsmith--but she may even exceed these grandes dames in this brilliant exploration of where devotion ends and danger begins. --Kerry Fried
"Darkly humorous...A Shakespearean comedy with Murdochian overtones."
-- The New Yorker
"Delicate & terrifying...a modern-day Rebecca"
-- Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe Book Review
"A page-turner: suspenseful, crisp, beautifully crafted...Livesey is a riveting storyteller, as masterful as Patricia Highsmith or Ruth Rendell."
-- Julie Brickman, San Diego Union-Tribune
"Engrossing...Doors are always opening and closing in the big house Livesey calls London, and someone new is always walking through."
-- David Kirby, Atlanta Journal Constitution
"Creepy & touching"
-- Jeff Giles, Newsweek
"Illuminating, darkly funny, and beautifully written...As with the works of Graham Swift and Ian McEwan, The Missing World combines splendidly intelligent, suspenseful plotting with an astringent moral sensibility."
-- Andrea Barrett
"Clever, lively, sometimes hilarious...The last line is a shocker that made this reader sit up with a jolt."
-- Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times
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