The Lost Child

by Caryl Phillips

Book Overview

Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnson--cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner--and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood of one of literature's most enigmatic lost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374191379
• ISBN13: 9780374191375
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"