The lost child
Phillips, Caryl2019
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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’ IndependentIt 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.
Main title:
The lost child / Caryl Phillips.
Author:
Phillips, Caryl, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
1 online resource
Notes:
Previously issued in print: London: Oneworld, 2015.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 18, 2025).
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ISBN:
9781473569829 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
2562849