The Boy in the Field ★★★☆☆

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★★★☆☆

The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey is a fiction book about three siblings who find and save a young man’s life and how they move forward after that experience.

I read this as an ebook checked out from the library.

Zoe, Matthew, and Duncan are walking home from school one day when they come across a boy who has been assaulted. He has blood all over him and he is unconscious. The siblings are able to get help and the boy lives. After this experience, each sibling is affected in a different way. Matthew becomes obsessed with finding out who attacked the boy. Zoe becomes infatuated with an older man, and Duncan decides that he wants to find his birth mother. This book explores how our experiences shape who we are and how moments that can seem insignificant impact we move through the world.

The beginning of this book hooked me, but after that the book was slow. There were some moments near the end where the interpersonal relationships were well explored but overall it felt like not a lot happened.

If you liked The Boy in the Field, I also recommend The Body by Stephen King, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray, The Mothers by Brit Bennett, and Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones.

Happy reading!

Ms.Bjork