{"product_id":"the-boy-in-the-field-margot-livesey-9781529339147","title":"The Boy in the Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A tender, deeply humane exploration of family, philosophy . . . and what it means to hold another's heart in yours with tenderness and mercy' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Wetmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A superb family drama'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Exquisite' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A searingly intelligent writer' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer Egan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A twist of eerie magic'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTessa Hadley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A singular, extraordinary delight' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClaire Lombardo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Every novel of Margot Livesey's is a joyous discovery'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlice Sebold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne 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 boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Daily Mail and O Magazine Book of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margot Livesey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43175918010611,"sku":"9781529339147","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781529339147.jpg?v=1662079046","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-boy-in-the-field-margot-livesey-9781529339147","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}