The redemptive power of stories and family is revealed in New York Times bestselling author John Connollyâs atmospheric tale set in the same magical universe as the âenchanting, engrossing, and enlighteningâ (Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale) The Book of Lost Things.
âTwice upon a timeâfor that is how some stories should continueâŚâ
In this âdark fairy taleâ (Kirkus Reviews), Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accidentâa body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world.
But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, to journey to a land colored by the memories of childhood, and the folklore beloved of her fatherâa land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; a land where old enemies are watching and waitingâŚ
The Land of Lost Things.