Critical Praise

"Banishing Verona is like all Livesey's novels: notable for her penetrating knowledge of the human heart coupled with respect for its essential mysteries, both explored in elegant, evocative prose."

——Kirkus

"Banishing Verona captures the magic of an unlikely young romance...(Livesey's) love-struck protagonists meet just twice...but their longing for each other, tender, mutual, and inexplicable, is this lovely book's powerful underlying chord." Grade: A-

——Entertainment Weekly

"Lovely...As Livesey gently probes the depths of longing, betrayal and forgiveness, her gift for creating sublimely unexpected sentences is abundantly on display."

——Publishers Weekly