Book description
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his
mother. He is angry and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf
for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the
darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved
by his dead mother, he finds that the real world and the fantasy world
have begun to meld. The Crooked Man has come, with his mocking smile and
his enigmatic words: 'Welcome, your majesty. All hail the new king.' And
as war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a land
that is both a construct of his imagination yet frighteningly real, a
strange reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories,
populated by wolves and worse-than-wolves, and ruled over by a faded
king who keeps his secret in a mysterious book. An imaginative tribute
to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into
adulthood, THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS is for every adult who can recall the
moment when childhood began to fade, and for every child about to face
that moment. It is a story of hope for all who have lost and all who
have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale of grief and loss, loyalty
and love, and most poignantly, the enduring power of stories in our
lives.
