The Lost - Softcover

Aycliffe, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0061054836 ISBN 13: 9780061054839

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

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Michael Feraru is a young teacher at a public school in the south of England. Following the deaths of his parents, he discovers he is heir to the family estate in Rumania. With the fall of communism and the opening of the country he decides to travel there.

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THE CHILLING STORY OF THE SUPERNATURAL

British born Michael Feraru, scion of a long line of Romanian aristocrats, leaves his country of birth and his love, to reclaim his heritage – a Draculian castle deep in the heart of Transylvania. He plans to turn his inheritance into an orphanage in the new post-Ceausescu, post-communist country. There he enlists the help of a young local lawyer, Liliana Popescu, to search for the missing Feraru millions, and battle through the complex maze of old bureaucracy in the scam-rich, newly-born state.

Feraru describes his journey into the heart of the Romanian countryside, wasted by years of neglect and caught in a time-warp, as though the twentieth century had never reached it. When he eventually arrives at his inheritance, he finds the castle of the Ferarus, in a sunless valley in the Carpathian Mountains, is home to much more than memories...

Aycliffe conjures a feeling of dread that deepens with each unsettling incident.’
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‘Aycliffe has a fine touch.’
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‘Should ultimately be ranked among the greats.’
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‘There are echoes of the great ghost writer of them all, Edgar Allan Poe, in the poised and elegant bookishness of the prose.’
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About the Author:

Jonathan Aycliffe was born in Belfast in 1949. He studied English, Persian, Arabic and Islamic studies at the universities of Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge, and lectured at the universities of Fez in Morocco and Newcastle upon Tyne. The author of several successful full-length ghost stories, he lives in the north of England with his wife, homeopath and health writer, Beth MacEoin. He also writes as Daniel Easterman, under which name he has penned nine bestselling novels.

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