The Road From Belhaven: A Novel

The Road From Belhaven: A Novel

From The New York Times Best-Selling Author Of The Flight Of Gemma Hardy, A Novel About A Young Woman Whose Gift Of Second Sight Complicates Her Coming Of Age In Late-Nineteenth-Century ScotlandBewitching And Seductive. -Rebecca Makkai, Author Of I Have Some Questions For You A Treasure: A Writer Who Understands The Magic And Mysteries Of The Human Soul. -Chris Bohjalian, Author Of Hour Of The Witch This Book Is A Cold, Clear, Perfect Lake. -Lauren Groff, Author Of The Vaster Wildsgrowing Up In The Care Of Her Grandparents On Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig Discovers As A Small Child That She Can See Into The Future. But Her Gift Is Selective-She DoesnT, For Instance, See That She Has An Older Sister Who Will Come To Join The Family. As Her Pictures Foretell Various Incidents And Accidents, She Begins To Realize A Painful Truth: She May Glimpse The Future, But She Can Seldom Change It.Nor Can Lizzie Change The Feelings That Come When A Young Man Named Louis, Visiting Belhaven For The Harvest, Begins To Court Her. Why Have The Adults Around Her Not Revealed That The Touch Of A Hand Can Change Everything? After Following Louis To Glasgow, Though, She Learns The Limits Of His Devotion. Faced With A Seemingly Impossible Choice, She Makes A Terrible Mistake. But Her Second Sight May Allow Her A Second Chance.Luminous And Transporting, The Road From Belhaven Once Again Displays The Marvelous Control Of A Writer Who Conjures Equally Well The Tangible, Sensory World . . . And The Mysteries, Stranger And Wilder, That Flicker At The Border Of That World. -The Boston Globe