Margot Livesey Book order (chronological)

A poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime

Taken from her native Iceland to Scotland in the early 1950s when her widower father drowns at sea, young Gemma Hardy comes to live with her kindly uncle and his family. But his death leaves Gemma under the care of her resentful aunt, and she suddenly finds herself an unwelcome guest. Surviving oppressive years at a strict private school, Gemma ultimately finds a job as an au pair to the eight-year-old niece of Mr. Sinclair on the Orkney Islands—and here, at the mysterious and remote Blackbird Hall, Gemma's greatest trial begins.

A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly -- and perhaps irrevocably -- in this surprising, suspenseful love story. Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most people and has trouble with such ordinary activities as lying, deciphering expressions, recognizing faces. Verona is thirty-seven, confident, hot-tempered, a modestly successful radio show host, unmarried, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating, they fall in love, only to be separated less than twenty-four hours later when Verona leaves abruptly, without explanation, for Boston. Both Zeke and Verona, it turns out, have complications in their lives, though not of a romantic kind. Verona's involve her brother, Henry, who is tied up in shady financial dealings. Zeke's father has had a heart attack and his mother is threatening to run away with her lover, all of which puts pressure on Zeke to take over the family grocery business. And yet he finds himself following Verona to Boston. As he pursues her, and she pursues Henry, both are forced to ask the perplexing question: Can we ever know another person?

In "Der Ruf der Elstern" von Margot Livesey wird die Geschichte von Eva McEwen erzählt, deren Geburt von einem unheilvollen Omen begleitet wird. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter wächst sie mit ihrem kranken Vater und ihrer Tante auf. Mysteriöse Besucherinnen begleiten sie durch ihr Leben, während sie im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Krankenschwester arbeitet und in einen Chirurgen verliebt ist. Der Roman thematisiert Einsamkeit, Liebe und die Mutter-Tochter-Bindung.

Was wäre, wenn man durch einen glücklichen Zufall neu anfangen und einen katastrophalen Fehler der Vergangenheit auslöschen könnte? Als Hazel nach einem Verkehrsunfall drei Jahre ihrer Vergangenheit verliert und ihr Gedächtnis ausgelöscht wird, erinnert sie sich nicht an ihren Streit mit Jonathan oder daran, dass sie ihn verlassen und aus ihrem Haus ausgezogen ist. Alles, was sie weiß, ist, dass er alles aufgegeben hat, um sich um sie zu kümmern, und ihr seine Liebe gesteht.

Five lives are suddenly caught up in a whirligig of increasingly dangerous emotions. This thriller is set in Scotland, London, America and Italy.