The Book of Lost Things I must admit partly drew me in through its beautiful cover. Feeling extricated, David reads to the point where the books literally begin to talk at him. David’s life is transformed for the worse and he finds himself stranded in another world, a world where knights, wolves, and beasts can be found within the forest as well as his mother’s voice.
He escapes the sharp reality of his mother’s death through storybooks to keep her memory alive, in a step-mum/step-brother scenario. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.The Book of Lost Things is a story following twelve year-old David, whose ill mother is on the verge of dying. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. The Book of Lost Things.Īn imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly's latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company.
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories.
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