{"product_id":"the-boy-in-the-field-9780062946409","title":"The Boy in the Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book of the Year An \u003cem\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Flight of Gemma Hardy\u003c\/em\u003e delivers another \"luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered\" (Dennis Lehane) novel--a poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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. Over 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\u003cp\u003eWritten with the deceptive simplicity and power of a fable, \u003cem\u003eThe Boy in the Field\u003c\/em\u003e showcases Margot Livesey's unmatched ability to \"tell her tale masterfully, with intelligence, tenderness, and a shrewd understanding of all our mercurial human impulses\" (Lily King, author of \u003cem\u003eEuphoria\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLivesey, Margot:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMargot Livesey\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Flight of Gemma Hardy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe House on Fortune Street\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBanishing Verona\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEva Moves the Furniture\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Missing World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCriminals\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHomework\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. \u003cem\u003eThe House on Fortune Street \u003c\/em\u003ewon the 2009 L. L. Winship\/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613969781010,"sku":"9780062946409","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b9f521af-ac9c-4671-ae3c-8781075a3064.jpg?v=1732423658","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-boy-in-the-field-9780062946409","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}