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The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found

Author(s): Lucy Foley

Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

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Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton.

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that . . .

LONDON, 1986: Bequeathed an old portrait by her grandmother, Kate Darling begins to unpick the tapestry of her family’s secret history in a journey that takes her to Corsica, Paris and back to the heady days of the Roaring Twenties where it all began.

PARIS, 1939: Alice Eversley and Thomas Stafford meet once again in the City of Light. Tom is now a world-famous artist, Alice is much-changed too – bruised from the events of the last decade. Perhaps they can lose themselves in the love story that ignited by a moonlit lake all those years ago?

But sometimes there’s no place for happy endings – and there’s no hiding from the shadow of war

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Well, the cover in this case is the first draw. And then as you open the pages you find an epic story, with fluid prose, that features Paris, London and much is set in...

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