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The Lost Story
The gorgeous, heartwarming grown-up fairytale by the beloved author of The Wishing Game
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This wildly imaginative book speaks to every reader who yearns for a more magical world - THAO THAI, author of Banyan Moon If you'd like to dream instead of a parallel world where love and loyalty and friendship are the magic that transforms the least of...
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See moreNarnia meets All The Birds in the Sky in The Lost Story, the new novel by the author of the bestselling novel The Wishing Game.
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This wildly imaginative book speaks to every reader who yearns for a more magical world - THAO THAI, author of Banyan Moon
If you'd like to dream instead of a parallel world where love and loyalty and friendship are the magic that transforms the least of us into genuine heroes, then Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story is the book you've been waiting for - RICHARD RUSSO, author of Empire Falls
From the author of the bestselling novel The Wishing Game comes a Narnia-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobe doors... just in case.
Once upon a time, two boys went missing in the woods. Six months later, they reappeared, with no explanation for where they'd been or how they'd survived.
Fifteen years on, Rafe is a reclusive artist with no memory of what happened during those months, despite the scars he bears. Meanwhile, Jeremy is a famed missing persons investigator. With his uncanny abilities, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her long-lost sister, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy.
Jeremy also keeps a secret: the fantastical truth about the magical realm they made home for those six months. And it's there they may find Emilie's sister.
Alongside Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they left behind – for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost.
Wholly moving... reminded me that even as an adult, if you look hard enough, you can find the child still inside you - Jodi Picoult, author of Mad Honey, on The Wishing Game
A heartwarming, page-turning story of found family [and] love triumphing over indifference - Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood, on The Wishing Game
A dreamy, inventive novel... Full of the power of imagination, it's one of my favourite books of the year - Sarah Addison Allen, author of Other Birds, on The Wishing Game
A meditation on the power of hope when all else seems lost - Kirkus Reviews on The Wishing Game
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529436327
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 July 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Arcadia Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 440g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Meg Shaffer is the author of the bestselling novel The Wishing Game. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband, author Andrew Shaffer, and their two cats. The cats are not writers.
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