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This is an emotionally-charged novel about a young Englishman whose French wife was murdered by the Gestapo at the beginning of the Second World War, leaving her child to be taken into hiding. After the war, Hilary Wainwright goes to France to look for his son.
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'Had it not got so nerve-wracking towards the end, I would have read it in one go...This is haunting stuff.' -- The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard, October 2001
'Little Boy Lost is a gem.' -- The Jewish Chronicle, Jonathan Self, October 2001
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'Little Boy Lost is a gem.' -- The Jewish Chronicle, Jonathan Self, October 2001
Marghanita Laski was born in 1915 to a family of Jewish intellectuals in Manchester; Harold Laski, the socialist thinker, was her uncle. She is the author of six novels and a celebrated critic. She wrote books on Jane Austen and George Eliot and two books on the nature of ecstasy. She died in 1988. Anne Sebba is a biographer, journalist and former Reuters foreign correspondent. She is the author of American Jennie: the Remarkable Life of Winston Churchill's Mother, published by Norton in 2007.
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- PublisherBarrie & Jenkins
- Publication date1949
- ISBN 10 0248983733
- ISBN 13 9780248983730
- BindingTextbook Binding
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Little Boy Lost
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Barrie & Jenkins 1949-12
(1949)
ISBN 10: 0248983733
ISBN 13: 9780248983730
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Poor. This book is published by Cresset Press in 1950. A lot of dirty marks, tears, creases and wear on jacket. Also some wear on cover. Content is fine. Seller Inventory # 042948-4
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ISBN 10: 0248983733
ISBN 13: 9780248983730
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Hardback book (good +) in dust jacket (good). Former owner's name/address on the first page otherwise the pages are unmarked, in very good condition and fully bound. Some shelfwear on the boards and spine. No bumping on the boards which are still square at all corners. Signs of liquid contact at the top edge of the front panel of the jacker. Generally light shelfwear on the jacket with slightly heavier wear at the top of the jacket spine and the ends of the fore edges (leading edges when book is put on shelf) of the jacket. Price clipped from front flap of jacket. Mailed same or next working day. Airmail used for destinations outside UK. Photo of book can be emailed on request. Seller Inventory # mon0000035637
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