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The Lost Girl
  • Published: 3 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9781849416177
  • Imprint: Definitions
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

The Lost Girl

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3 Dec 2012
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Her life begins when another ends . . .

Eva's life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination – an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her 'other', if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it's like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.

But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.

Now she must abandon everything she's ever known – the guardians who raised her, the boy she's forbidden to love – to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive . . .
  • Published: 3 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9781849416177
  • Imprint: Definitions
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the authors

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was born into a miner's family in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth of five children. He attended Beauvale Board School and Nottingham High School, and trained as an elementary schoolteacher at Nottingham University College. He taught in Croydon from 1908. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, just a few weeks after the death of his mother, to whom he had been extraordinarily close. His career as a schoolteacher was ended by serious illness at the end of 1911. In 1912 Lawrence went to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the German wife of the Professor of Modern Languages at University College, Nottingham. They were married on their return to England in 1914. Lawrence had published Sons and Lovers in 1913; but The Rainbow, completed in 1915, was suppressed, and for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, completed in 1917. After the war, Lawrence lived abroad and sought a more fulfilling mode of life than he had so far experienced. With Frieda he lived in Italy, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Mexico and Mexico. They returned to Europe in 1925, settling in Italy again, where he finished Lady Chatterley's Lover. This, his last novel, was published in 1928, but did not appear in its complete form in England and America for thirty years. The tuberculosis which had first been diagnosed in Mexico was becoming increasingly serious by this time, and in a last attempt to find a cure Frieda took him to Germany and then France. He died aged forty-four in Vence, in the south of France. After his death, Frieda wrote that 'What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life ... a heroic and immeasurable gift.' Lawrence's life may have been short, but he lived it intensely. He produced an amazing body of work: novels, stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, translations, paintings and letters (over five thousand of which survive).

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Among his works, Sons and Lovers appeared in 1913, The Rainbow (1915), Women In Love (1920), and many others.

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Praise for The Lost Girl

The most honest portrait of grief and loss that I've read in a long time. Filled with heartache, love and things that would stir Mary Shelley's ghost, this is not a story to be missed.

Lauren DeStefano, bestselling author of the Chemical Garden trilogy

A provocative and page-turning thriller/romance that gets at the heart of what it means to be human

Kirkus Reviews

The Lost Girl is a lovely, lovely book. The writing is truly lyrical, full of thoughts and feelings and love and pain. Eva is more than an engaging character; she's a living, breathing girl of worth . . . I loved the beautiful, evocative writing style and I loved every character in this book. I also loved the feelings and themes behind it - a reverence for life, an appreciation of beauty and freedom, a deep understanding of the importance of love.

thebookbag.co.uk

It's refreshing that the heroine is brave but also vulnerable and relatable . . . It is also a treat to read a novel which is unashamedly British-Indian, and set in both Windermere and Bangalore . . . The story is fast-paced and the narrator is likeable

Starburst Magazine

The Lost Girl is something I would definitely read over and over again . . . It is a fabulous read

Sugarscape

The story is great; it’s exciting and tense with plenty of action . . . The Lost Girl is an amazing first novel and I think Sangu Mandanna is a name to watch out for.

andthenireadabook.blogspot

This is a lovely read for a teen audience.

wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk

This is a fantastic debut, one I couldn’t put down and that raises some truly interesting question about the nature of the soul, ethics and the truth about being ‘human’. I cannot wait to see what Mandanna writes next . . . this was one of the most compelling YA books of this type that I have read to date

ChooseYA.com

The Lost Girl was incredible. There's no other way of saying it.

readaraptor.co.uk

The story is impressively creative . . . Sangu Mandanna has crafted a gorgeous debut that addresses the tough questions about rights of the living.

fansoffiction.blogspot.co.uk

A stunning debut, The Lost Girl combines a brilliant concept with flowing writing to create a thought provoking dystopian.

hannahmariska.blogspot.co.uk

The Lost Girl just filled me with a jumble of overpowering emotions, all of which touched my heart deeply. It's so beautiful. An overwhelmingly creative story. One that urges people to think, think very hard, and evaluate the value of a human life and how to live it. Debut author Sangu Mandanna has written an emotional, unforgettable tale of one's girl's struggle to just live as herself, to have an identity to call her own and feel how it is to be human, to love and be loved. Sangu Mandanna, you are brilliant!

AmaterasuReads.blogspot

The Lost Girl may be based on a fantastic premise but it addresses issues that most post-adolescents must sort out as best as they can: a vanishing childhood, the exchange of innocence for experience, and the newness of navigating a world without shelter.

The Asian Age
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