Little Boy Lost [Paperback]

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd. (1949)
• ASIN: B001L8ZMTY
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing and heart-wrenching tale, November 11, 2004

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Megan "Megan" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Boy Lost (Paperback)

This is an amazingly crafted and heart-wrenching tale of a man who lost his wife, a member of the French Resistance, and infant son in World War II... only to discover that his son may, after all, still be alive and living in an orphanage in Normandy.

This book has you sitting on the edge of your seat until the very end. It is very well written, and a very moving story. I think if I said more, I would be giving away too much. Read it for yourself!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Review for Little Boy Lost, October 30, 2000

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Anisha (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Boy Lost (Hardcover)

This book shows you how bleak France was after the world war. The idea is very realistic and the characters are well thought up. The main character-Hilary-has lost his son. His wife died in France and the boy as left in the care of her close friend, Jean. But Jean was killed and the boy lost. Hilary gets a visit from Pierre who was in love with Jean who says that he would like to look for Hilary's son. So Pierre goes and looks for the boy after the war and Hilary joins him. When Pierre thinks that he has found the boy, Hilary goes to see him and gets mixed feelings about him. But in the end Hilary has to make a decision and it is a decision that will change his life.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Weakest of Persephone's three Laski novels, but worth a look, December 28, 2004

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Jay Dickson (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Boy Lost (Paperback)

Two of the strongest and most thrilling of the novels Persephone Books has reisuued include two by the critic and religious scholar Marghanita Laski: the chilling time-travel novella of confused identity THE VICTORIAN CHAISE-LONGUE and the absorbing postwar comedy of manners THE VILLAGE. Their third Laski re-issue, LITTLE BOY LOST, is not as strong as the other two. The protagonist, Hillary Wainwright, is so ambivalent and ineffectual he deserves his name; while part of the novel's suspense rests in the fact that, in trying to determine whether a war orphan is his own lost son, he may scotch the whole thing because of his egotism and moral weakness, these qualities make him a difficult character to spend an entire novel following. The best thing LITTLE BOY LOST has going for it is its sharp-etched portrait of the dismal quality of life in France after the Nazi Occupation, and here it excels.