Banishing Verona

by Margot Livesey (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $21.33

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $11.81

  Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most people and has trouble with such ordinary activities as lying, deciphering expressions, recognising faces. Verona is thirty-seven, confident, hot-tempered, a modestly successful radio show host, unmarried, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating, they fall in love, only to be separated, when Verona leaves abruptly, without explanation, for Boston. Both have complications in their lives. Verona involves her brother, Henry, who is tied up in shady financial dealings. Zeke has his own troubles, yet he finds himself following Verona to Boston. As he pursues her, and she pursues Henry, both are forced to ask the perplexing question: Can we ever know another person?