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Margot Livesey

Fiction

Sept/Oct 2019

Gilbert in Arcadia

By Margot Livesey

Gilbert was humming on the drive back from Lucy’s when a sound like a foghorn rent the air. In the nearby field the black bull was pressed against the fence, […]

Fiction

Autumn 1990

The Midnight Feast

By Margot Livesey

Lyndsay did not dare to fall asleep. She lay open-eyed in the faint familiar darkness of her room; she kept herself awake by thinking about her finances. If she baby-sat […]