The Book of Lost Things · Book 1
The Book of Lost Things
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 339
- ISBN-13
- 9780743298858
- Type
- novel
About this book
John Connolly's 2006 novel The Book of Lost Things follows David, a grieving boy in wartime England who retreats into books after his mother's death, until the boundary between his world and a dark, half-remembered fairy-tale land gives way and pulls him through.
Its place in The Book of Lost Things
The Book of Lost Things is book 1 in the The Book of Lost Things series. It is followed by The Land of Lost Things. See the full The Book of Lost Things reading order.
The Book of Lost Things follows David, a grieving boy in wartime England who retreats into books after his mother's death and his father's swift remarriage, until the boundary between his world and a dark, half-remembered version of fairy-tale land gives way and pulls him through. What he finds isn't the sanitized version of these stories: Connolly's fairy-tale world is genuinely frightening, populated by a Crooked Man who trades in children's names, a Woodsman, wolves evolving toward human intelligence, and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743298858