This is an emotionally-charged novel about a young Englishman whose French wife was murdered by the Gestapo at the beginning of the Second World War, leaving her child to be taken into hiding. After the war, Hilary Wainwright goes to France to look for his son.
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Review:
'Had it not got so nerve-wracking towards the end, I would have read it in one go...This is haunting stuff.' -- The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard, October 2001
'Little Boy Lost is a gem.' -- The Jewish Chronicle, Jonathan Self, October 2001
About the Author:
Marghanita Laski was born in 1915 to a family of Jewish intellectuals in Manchester; Harold Laski, the socialist thinker, was her uncle. She is the author of six novels and a celebrated critic. She wrote books on Jane Austen and George Eliot and two books on the nature of ecstasy. She died in 1988. Anne Sebba is a biographer, journalist and former Reuters foreign correspondent. She is the author of American Jennie: the Remarkable Life of Winston Churchill's Mother, published by Norton in 2007.
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- PublisherNew English Library Ltd
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0450043142
- ISBN 13 9780450043147
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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