The Flight of Gemma Hardy

By Margot Livesey
(Harper, Hardcover, 9780062064226, 447pp.)

Publication Date: January 2012

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Paperback, Compact Disc

Categories: Contemporary Women

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the February 2012 Indie Next List

“There is nothing like a good visit with old friends, and that is what it's like to savor this novel. Even better, really, since in this retelling of Jane Eyre the characters are imbued with a more modern sensibility -- and this time around Mr. Rochester is not a reprehensible misogynist! Livesey's Gemma remains true to the spirit of Jane, and the dark settings of Scotland and the Orkney Islands are as atmospheric as they come. This is the perfect book to curl up with for a weekend with a pot o' tea -- or perhaps a wee dram of something stronger.”

-- Emily Crowe, Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA

Description

An acclaimed author and first-rate storyteller ("USA Today") delivers her breakout novel: the captivating tale of a young Scottish orphan who sets out on a journey to escape her oppressive upbringing, and finds independence--and love--on her own terms.

About the Author

MARGOT LIVESEY is the acclaimed author of the novels The House on Fortune Street, Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture and Banishing Verona. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Livesey was born in Scotland and grew up on the edge of the Highlands. She currently lives in the Boston area and is a distinguished writer-in-residence at Emerson College.

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