The Lost Child
  • Published: 7 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473569829
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

The Lost Child

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7 Nov 2019
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4 Feb 2020
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From award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips, a heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past


Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips – inspired by Wuthering Heights.

It is the 1960s. Isolated from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, Monica Johnson raises her sons in the shadow of the wild Yorkshire moors. But when her younger son Tommy, a loner who is bullied at school, disappears, the family bond is demolished – with devastating consequences.

Deftly intertwined with this modern narrative is the story of the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys. Recovering the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, The Lost Child is an exquisite novel about exile, freedom and what it is to belong.

‘Heartbreaking…compelling’ Independent
  • Published: 7 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473569829
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.

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Also by Caryl Phillips

A View of the Empire at Sunset
Colour Me English
Higher Ground
In the Falling Snow
Cambridge
The Nature of Blood
Foreigners: Three English Lives
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Praise for The Lost Child

Heartbreaking... Compelling

Independent

The prose is as sleek as you would expect from a writer as accomplished as Phillips

Guardian

Phillips has found a way to enlist the strange energy of Emily Brontë’s work and redirect it to powerful and surprising effect

Times Literary Supplement

Expertly written and artfully crafted

Daily Mail
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