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Book SynopsisDiscover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips – inspired by Wuthering Heights.
It is the 1960s. Isolated from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, Monica Johnson raises her sons in the shadow of the wild Yorkshire moors. But when her younger son Tommy, a loner who is bullied at school, disappears, the family bond is demolished – with devastating consequences.
Deftly intertwined with this modern narrative is the story of the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys. Recovering the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, The Lost Child is an exquisite novel about exile, freedom and what it is to belong.
‘Heartbreaking…compelling’ Independent
Trade ReviewHeartbreaking... Compelling * Independent *
The prose is as sleek as you would expect from a writer as accomplished as Phillips * Guardian *
Phillips has found a way to enlist the strange energy of Emily Brontë’s work and redirect it to powerful and surprising effect * Times Literary Supplement *
Expertly written and artfully crafted * Daily Mail *
