Margot Livesey has been one of my all-time, always-read authors for a long time. I was thrilled to get the chance to read this new one and it didn't disappoint! I loved how, when it opens, you think the story is going to go in one direction (the direction of the dead boy) but it goes the other way. I thought it was a nearly perfect (and perfectly short) novel.

While somewhat atypical of Livesey The Boy in the Field is a gripping read as adolescents begin to realize that the world around them is more complicated than they imagined. The main characters are engaging and while I’m. It a fan of “coming of age” books there is something reverent in the way Livesey treats this phase of life and family dynamics.