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Margot Livesey, a native of Scotland, is the author of Criminals and, most recently, The Missing World. She lives in Massachusetts and London.
What interests me is the business of telling a story. Reading Stevenson was as great a revelation as stumbling across Wilkie Collins. This is the story of David Balfour, a Highland Whig, on the run through Scottish Highlands in the company of one of the great heroes of all time - Alan Breck, the Jacobite. It does what Ian McEwan always says fiction should do - shows rather than tells. Review by Nigel Williams, whose books include 'Fortysomething' (Kirkus UK)
