“Gemma
is real—it’s as simple as that. And through her eyes we see step by
step what it means . . . to take possession of one’s own life.” David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“In The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey offers a new telling of Jane Eyre,
for which no contemporary writer is better suited. As always, Livesey’s
prose is a garden of pleasures: precision here, lyricism there, wit and
compassionate insight throughout.” Amy Bloom, author of Away
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.
“Gemma
is real—it’s as simple as that. And through her eyes we see step by
step what it means . . . to take possession of one’s own life.” 
