Persephone Classics: Little Boy Lost (Paperback)

from phoebesmum

A Persephone classic - Persephone are well worth a shout-out for their marvellous work in bringing forgotten classics back into print - 'Little Boy Lost' is set at the end of and in the years after the Second World War and deals with Hilary Wainwright's search for his young son, John (or Jean), b...

from Girl_Detective

"Little Boy Lost" was not at all what I expected, which was something like a hard-working soldier returns from the war to find his young son missing, then goes off to find him, at all costs. Instead, Little Boy Lost is far more interesting and complex. Hilary Wainwright had an English desk job in...

from rainpebble

This is the story of a young Englishman, Hilary, who after WWII is left knowing that his French wife was killed by the Gestapo and that his young son, whom he has not seen since his birth, is lost among the many orphans in the war's aftermath. Pierre, a friend of his dead wife, comes to Hilary an...

from rainpebble

This is the story of a young Englishman, Hilary, who after WWII is left knowing that his French wife was killed by the Gestapo and that his young son, whom he has not seen since his birth, is lost among the many orphans in the war's aftermath. Pierre, a friend of his dead wife, comes to Hilary an...

from helen295

Little Boy Lost is the second book I've read by Marghanita Laski - the first was The Victorian Chaise-Longue. However, I found the two books entirely different. This one was far more emotional and a more gripping, compelling read. It's Christmas Day, 1943, when Hilary Wainwright first learns that...