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Synopsis

Celia Gilchrist believes that she has finally found the right man in Stephen, but when she moves in with him and his young daughter Jenny, things begin to go subtly, menacingly wrong.Money disappears, a sweater is ruined, small, common-place lies escalate into awkward confrontations.Livesey's debut novel is an affecting portrait of jealousy and fear, devotion and the desire to be loved.AUTHORBIO: Margot Livesey is the author of a story collection, Learning By Heart, and four novels, including Criminals, The Missing World, and, most recently, Eva Moves the Furniture.She is lives and teaches in Massachusetts, where she is currently writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston. REVIEW: 'Arresting...Homework skillfully infuses psychological fright into the ordinary routine of living.' (The New York Times)REVIEW: 'An artful narrative...rife with Hitchcockian suspense and a vivid recreation of terror worthy of the master himself.' (Los Angeles Times)REVIEW: 'The careful symmetry of Livesey's characters and he generous use of symbolism reflect the sensibilities of a short-story writer.... Livesey's prose is clear and her subject-matter compelling.' (The Washington Post) REVIEW: 'Homework is a deeply haunting report from the unimaginable secret battlefield of the family psyche.' (Rosellen Brown)

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