Welcome to Litsy!

Hilary travels to post war France to look for his 5 year old son, who he has last seen when the boy was just a baby. In an orphanage he will meet a little boy who might be his son. Shall he recognize him? Shall he know whether the boy is indeed his son when he sees him? Shall he be able to love the child?

A portrait of France in ruins and of a man who thinks he can‘t love anymore after the years of the war.

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Having escaped occupied paris Hillary knows his wife died at the hands of the gestapo, a visitor tells him that their new born child was lost. In 45 he returns to a France torn apart by mistrust, hunger and post war devastation to try and discover if an orphan is his son unsure if he wants the emotional upheaval or should leave the boy lost. Told with sensitivity this a picture of a nation recovering, a man in turmoil + the fate of orphans.

Sublime. Simply but beautifully written, emotionally driven. I loathed the protagonist in this, yet wept at the ending. Perfectly captures the chaos and grief caused in the aftermath of war.

Set in post-war England, life is anything but peaceful. Hillary is a widower and his young son has been lost for 5 years. As Hillary embarks on a search to find the boy he doesn‘t know, he struggles to confront his feelings on how to move forward if he does indeed find little John, and if that‘s truly what he wants after all. So many emotions packed into this one!!

#booked2019
#bookgiftedtoyou Special thanks to Jennifer for thinking of me ❤️

#LostinFrance

First sentence: “It was on Christmas Day, 1943, that Hilary Wainwright learnt that his little son was lost.”

Wainwright, a poet and intellectual, sets out on a journey through post-WWII France to search for a child lost five years before. I haven‘t read this recent addition to my #PersephoneBooks collection yet but it is blurbed as “page-turning”, “gripping”, “powerful”, and “emotional”. That‘s good enough for me!

#WanderingJune

I received the most amazing bookmail this weekend 😍 @Jas16 thank you SO much for adding to my Persephone collection!! I do not have this book yet and it was a wonderful surprise to receive it from you along with your sweet note!! 😊
I ❤️ Litsy!

Thanks Aimee! What a pretty #persephonebook that you sent me 😋 #bookmail

I‘m starting my first #Persephonebooks today. For #Persephone readers, please comment your recommendations. I think it‘s time to welcome spring with a hardback! 😊🌷💗 Thank you, in advance, for your suggestions!

#MayBookFlowers Day 25 - Missing

The little boy is lost; where did he go?

LITTLE BOY LOST by Marghanita Laski tells of a poet who returns to France immediately after WW2 to search for a missing child. Originally published in 1949 , this book was and reprinted by #persephone in 2011.