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| Negotiating With Loss In her latest novel, Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey comes to terms with the death of her mother by Leah Stewart
When Livesey's mother worked as the nurse at a boys' school in Scotland, patients in the sanatorium struggled to get a good night's sleep—the furniture was always floating around. "Eva would come in and grumble and put it back," Livesey says. "Quite a number of her former patients reported this." Then there was the time Livesey's guardian, Roger, went to make a call in Eva's room. While he was on the phone a door opened, and a woman in a raincoat came in, nodded, walked across the room, and left by a door on the far side. Roger later described the woman to Eva. "Oh, her," Eva said, and told Roger to try the door. "The door he had just seen open he found to be screwed shut," Livesey says. "What struck me in that story was Eva's familiarity with this woman, that she wasn't startled or upset." |
Sewanee Writers' Series Publishes Twelfth Book
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Margot Livesey has no memories of her mother, Eva, who died when Livesey was two-and-a-half-years old. But she did inherit stories, tales of Eva's encounters with the supernatural, that inspired Livesey to write her fourth novel, Eva Moves the Furniture.
The Sewanee Writers' Series is pleased to announce the March 2004 release of its twelfth book, Greg Williams's Boomtown. Boomtown is the sharp hip tale of New York City dot-commers after the Y2K panic has passed. Internet start-ups are thriving, the stock market is climbing, and the dawn of the new century is just a little too bright for its own good.