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One of our Books of the Year 2015.
One of those involved family dramas of uncertain parentage, mystery and secrets. Wonderful stuff. It concerns a young woman, Kate, who at the age of six loses her mother in a plane crash. Her mother, June, had been a famous ballerina, an orphan child and it is her story we unearth. In doing so Kate travels to Corsica to visit a famous artist where she finds love. So we get a past love story and a present one and beautifully told they are too as we swing from 1928 through to the 90s. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
In many ways, my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. It's when life started in earnest HERTFORDSHIRE, 1928 The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. And so begins a love story that finds its feet by a lake one silvery moonlit evening ...It's when there were no happy endings PARIS, 1939 Alice is living in the City of Light, but the pain of the last decade has already left its mark. There's a shadow creeping across Europe when she and Thomas Stafford - now a world famous artist - find each other once more ...It's when the story begins LONDON, 1986 Bequeathed an old portrait from her grandmother, Kate Darling uncovers a legacy that takes her to Corsica, Paris and beyond. And as the secrets of time fall away, a love story as epic as it is life-changing slowly reveals itself ...Sweeping and heartrending - the perfect read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton.
Closing date: 15/05/2021
In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion some of our Lovereading Reader Review Panel were also lucky enough to read and review this title.
Praise for The Book of Lost and Found: 'A glamorous, seductively immersive read... [Foley] is a talent to watch'
Sunday Times
'Wildly romantic and very enjoyable; a super debut'
Daily Mail
'This beautiful heartbreaking read will give you goosebumps' Sun on Sunday
'[A] striking debut'
Grazia
'Tightly plotted with polished prose, this is very good indeed'
Sunday Mirror
'Epic debut'
Independent
'A rich, rolling, romantic story that sweeps across time and space'
Saga
ISBN: 9780007575350
Publication date: 18/06/2015
Publisher: Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007575329
Publication date: 15/01/2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
| ISBN: | 9780007575350 |
| Publication date: | 18th June 2015 |
| Author: | Lucy Foley |
| Publisher: | Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 544 pages |
| Genres: | Book Club Recommendations, Reader Reviewed Books, eBook Favourites, Family Drama, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, |
| Categories: | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), |
Lucy Foley is the No.1 Sunday Times and Irish Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party and three other novels. A trip to Connemara, from where half of Lucy’s family hail, on the west coast of Ireland sparked the idea for her latest book. Struck by the wild, rugged beauty of the islands off its shores – the perfect setting for a wedding, yet dangerously cut-off – Lucy began to plot a new murder mystery. An island with no escape, old friends and family reuniting, emotions running high. What could possible go wrong? And so The Guest List ...
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