 "The Missing World" was followed a year later by "Eva Moves the Furniture" (2001), a novel that took Livesey twelve years to write, in part because it drew more closely on her own life than her previous works.She based the novel's eponymous protagonist on stories she had heard about her mother, Eva McEwen, and especially about her relationship with the supernatural.Like the real Eva, the fictional Eva loses her mother in childbirth.