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020 _a9780061451522
082 0 _aFIC LIV
100 1 _aLivesey, Margot
245 1 4 _aThe house on Fortune Street
_c/ Margot Livesey
250 _a1st ed
260 _aNew York
_b: HarperCollins Publishers
_c, c2008.
300 _a311 p.
_c; 24 cm.
520 _a"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 interlocking narratives - Sean's, Cameron's, Dara's, and Abigail's - we gradually understand how these characters' lives are shaped by both chance and determination. Whatever the source, there is no mistaking the tragedy that strikes the house on Fortune Street."--BOOK JACKET.
650 _aLuck
_v-Fiction
655 7 _aPsychological fiction
655 7 _aLove stories
942 _cMO
999 _c250143
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