" The Book of Lost and Found is a sheer joy to read. Lucy Foley's impressive debut thoroughly satisfies, and I can't wait to read whatever she writes next."- Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Mrs. " The Book of Lost and Found is an irresistibly entertaining and evocative novel, a tender, heart wrenching tale of love lost and found immersed in a suspenseful historical mystery. Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway's Girl and Call Me Zelda Readers may count on losing hours of sleep to remain immersed in lush Corsica, luminous Paris, and lively New York, with an unforgettable group of characters, and a mystery that spans decades. I recommend this book to literary lovers – the writing is poignant, flowing, and descriptively imaginative."Lucy Foley masterfully evokes period and setting in THE BOOK OF LOST AND FOUND. It gives the relationship immortality and youth, and it gives the reader room for reverence.
It makes the reader fill in the gaps left deliberately by Lucy Foley, and the reader knows that relationship never would’ve lasted anyway. Her relationship with Thomas Stafford and his son is fleeting and polite, and her brief fling with his son is unresolved. And in this circumstance, her behaviour is believable. She wants to find out what happened to her maternal grandmother, but isn’t unrealistically too eager about it. Lucy Foley captures Kate’s curiosity well. It’s not until you get one third of the way through the story before you realise how the storylines connect. And then there’s another time period more in the future, featuring completely different characters. There’s two different time periods, but for the same characters.
The first 100 pages are slow and hard to understand. But everyone else seemed to like the cover, so I’ll just move right along. I was reluctant to start this book because I really dislike the cover – it doesn’t scream LITERARY FICTION to me. Kate’s journey takes her to Corsica, Paris and beyond, and as time melts away she is catapulted into the heart of a love story as epic as it is life changing…
Against the shadow that sweeps across Europe, she and Thomas Stafford – now a world famous artist – meet once more…īestowed with an old charcoal portrait from her grandmother, Kate Darling can’t possibly imagine the secrets that have been lost to time. There’s champagne and excitement, but above all there’s the beginning of a love story that finds its feet by a lake one silvery moonlit evening.Īlice is living in the city of light, but the pain of the last decade has already left its mark. The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance.
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