eva moves the furniture

Eva Moves the Furniture: A Novel by Margot Livesey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This was a sad, lonely, lovely novel. It is a story about family, loss, ghosts, the past, and all of those elements intertwined in a complex way. Eva's mom dies when she is a day old, she grows up to stories of her mother told by her father and aunt. Her life is also determined by the presence/absence of two "companions", who are only visible to her.
This is a short, quiet novel, but one I highly recommend because of its acceptance of the line between reality and imagination, dreams and the ordinary, fantasy and fact. The whole novel reads like a long poem, it has a dreamy, soothing quality to it. I am usually attracted to books that are set in or tell stories of backgrounds I know nothing about, and this story set in the Scottish countryside in the early 19th century definitely painted a beautiful picture in my mind.



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