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Eva Moves the Furniture

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Written by Margot Livesey.
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On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window--a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night, Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in their small Scottish town. As a child, Eva is often visited by two companions--a woman and a girl--invisible to everyone else save her. As she grows, their intentions become increasingly unclear: Do they wish to protect or harm her? A magical novel about loneliness, love, and the profound connection between mother and daughter, Eva Moves the Furniture fuses the simplicity of a fairy tale with the complexity of adult passions.

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Nikki thinks this book is Good.

This book was picked up at basically a yard sale for books at a community college. Many years later, I finally picked it off my shelf and read it. It takes a while to really get the feel of what kind of book this is, but once you get the hang of it, it's not that bad. Eva struggles with trying to figure out where she belongs in life, and it doesn't help that these two "women" who appear either try to help or bar her from succeeding at certain jobs or from making friends with certain people. A little chilling at some points, it's actually a fairly decent novel. The end does a good job of explaining the questions the reader has, such as who these two women are and where they come from, and why they followed her around. It goes along with that theory that everyone has a guardian angel.

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