The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips - ISBN: 9781529111569
Paperback
Orphans, outcasts, and a classic’s ghost: The past haunts the present.

The Lost Child

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    4 February 2020

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Summary

From award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips, a heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past.

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 ragge…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529111569
ISBN-10:1529111560
Author:Caryl Phillips
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:4 February 2020
Weight:194g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

Heartbreaking… Compelling

Heartbreaking… 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 *

About The Author

Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.

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