āA brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.ā
āBoston Sunday Globe
Publishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguireās Lost āa deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.ā Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrieās Peter Pan, Charles Dickensās A Christmas Carol, and the Jack the Ripper stories, the bestselling author of The Wicked Years canon creates a captivating fairy tale for the modern world. With Lost, Maguireāwho re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Oz, and inspired the creation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster Wickedādelivers a haunting tale of shadows and phantoms and things going bump in the night, confirming his reputation as āone of contemporary fictionās most assured myth-makersā (Kirkus Reviews).