Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize Lost River is the story of the Van Beest family, which inherits a house at the edge of a magical forest where the dead return from the afterlife. When 10-year-old Anne's mother, a midwife, delivers a stillborn baby and her father, a mortician, accidentally brings that...
"Lost River has the feel of an instant classic." Anthony McGowan, Carnegie Medal Winner.