Read about another entry on the list.Mercury by Margot Livesey
In Margot Livesey's Mercury, her first novel set in America, a marriage falls apart due to secrets, horses, guns, and changing ideologies. The couple at the heart of Mercury seem to find themselves married to strangers, though perhaps the true strangers are themselves. Donald is an eye doctor who misses what is happening right in front of him, and Viv is an ambitious rider who has finally found the right horse to the neglect of her family. Livesey shows us both sides of this marriage in equally magnetic prose, and the effect of being in the middle is one of gripping tension.
The Page 69 Test: Mercury.
--Marshal Zeringue
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