It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become friends. Years later they remain close: Abigail, the actress, allegedly immune to romance, and Dara, a therapist, throwing herself into relationships with frightening intensity. Now both beleive they've found "true love." But luck seems to run out when Dara moves into Abigail's downstairs apartment. Suddenly both their friendships and their relationships are in peril. Told through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Margot Livesey's The House on Fortune Street is a provocative tale of lives shaped equally by chance and choice.