Narnia meets All The Birds in the Sky in The Lost Story, the new novel by the author of the bestselling novel The Wishing Game.
´This wildly imaginative book speaks to every reader who yearns for a more magical world´ - THAO THAI, author of Banyan Moon
´If you´d like to dream instead of a parallel world where love and loyalty and friendship are the magic that transforms the least of us into genuine heroes, then Meg Shaffer´s The Lost Story is the book you´ve been waiting for´ - RICHARD RUSSO, author of Empire Falls
From the author of the bestselling novel The Wishing Game comes a Narnia-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobe doors . . . just in case.
Once upon a time, two boys went missing in the woods. Six months later, they reappeared, with no explanation for where they´d been or how they´d survived.
Fifteen years on, Rafe is a reclusive artist with no memory of what happened during those months, despite the scars he bears. Meanwhile, Jeremy is a famed missing persons investigator. With his uncanny abilities, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her long-lost sister, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy.
Jeremy also keeps a secret: the fantastical truth about the magical realm they made home for those six months. And it´s there they may find Emilie´s sister.
Alongside Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they left behind - for only then can they get back everything and everyone they´ve lost.
´Wholly moving . . . reminded me that even as an adult, if you look hard enough, you can find the child still inside you´ - Jodi Picoult, author of Mad Honey, on The Wishing Game
´A heartwarming, page-turning story of found family [and] love triumphing over indifference´ - Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood, on The Wishing Game
´A dreamy, inventive novel . . . Full of the power of imagination, it´s one of my favourite books of the year´ - Sarah Addison Allen, author of Other Birds, on The Wishing Game
´A meditation on the power of hope when all else seems lost´ - Kirkus Reviews on The Wishing Game