The Book of Lost and Found: Sweeping, captivating, perfect summer reading
Lucy Foley
Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton.LONDON, 1986: Bequeathed an old portrait by her grandmother, Kate Darling begins to unpick the tapestry of her family’s secret history in a journey that takes her to Corsica, Paris and back to the heady days of the Roaring Twenties where it all began.PARIS, 1939: Alice Eversley and Thomas Stafford meet once again in the City of Light. Tom is now a world-famous artist, Alice is much-changed too – bruised from the events of the last decade. Perhaps they can lose themselves in the love story that ignited by a moonlit lake all those years ago?But sometimes there’s no place for happy endings – and there’s no hiding from the shadow of war . . .
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Source ISBN: 9780007575350
Ebook Edition © June 2015 ISBN: 9780007575343
Version: 2016-04-25
Dedication (#ulink_fd82a576-f461-5258-9068-61b90b508a60)
To my grandmothers
Contents
Cover (#ua2da086d-0f55-54a4-9513-37ee8eeb7c28)
Title Page (#u54d87f42-4bca-5a68-975d-929c6765c407)
Copyright (#uf14176c7-ecc6-5629-8ebc-600f175691b9)
Dedication (#u9ca41828-f40a-5b46-9254-18f1e8b43616)
The Portrait (#ua2fb238c-b916-5636-9619-63c2c7fc4507)
Part One: The Work of a Master (#u4cbd1231-661b-5337-8cb2-83d5f3b9a05c)
Chapter 1 (#u62cb2dc0-46db-5802-b490-c20cbd0b3904)
Chapter 2 (#ub35dbc85-09c3-5680-b153-6de306948b15)
Chapter 3 (#u8760d6cf-cea3-5f69-97fd-5c55cdff667d)
Chapter 4 (#u05c55b47-d45b-5df5-a715-78a3902d6cb0)
Chapter 5 (#ue49cea66-76cd-5942-bb7c-76a0c734e786)
Part Two: The Logic of a Fairy Tale (#uf37864e7-2270-5871-91e0-8deb24791a94)
Chapter 6 (#ue9a4b1ae-6aa4-50f7-8c80-2a7c662c100f)
Chapter 7 (#u7f74d739-c2a2-5a41-9013-182b59815ab6)
Chapter 8 (#u74a5aeff-89d6-5aed-824d-0945bd0098b9)
Chapter 9 (#u1f5bd934-f6ed-56e6-a35d-efa83767fc93)
Chapter 10 (#u56e3590a-22e3-59aa-b3e0-0ede5f980ae7)
Chapter 11 (#ufba8861b-594c-5c9e-a5e1-d1b5d91146d1)
Chapter 12 (#ua78e4586-5c9f-5bba-b458-1abc639f7e83)
Chapter 13 (#ub430149d-1c25-5ddc-bd85-af503e5f929d)
Chapter 14 (#u34146c13-b652-5519-bb87-b22e8132edad)
Chapter 15 (#uc8f072aa-6532-51c6-a19e-6948ea6fdd08)
Chapter 16 (#ue77d3197-679f-50f8-b287-5ff3cd04e792)
Chapter 17 (#ub8960996-8348-5fef-808b-2acfc5b7af41)
Chapter 18 (#u99e2ac63-ee47-5e48-b4e5-f7872c84c5cd)
Chapter 19 (#uddac635e-36c0-5bf4-9752-99f9f79242e2)
Chapter 20 (#u85d64384-771b-5c37-97c7-63d19bb79377)
Chapter 21 (#uac4d7258-98ee-5ba7-b8bf-3174bb7ee26e)
Chapter 22 (#uf4694100-a3ee-5594-8750-43a749f62dc0)
Chapter 23 (#u522e42c3-9d59-557c-a7d1-be62715476e4)
Chapter 24 (#u9d565c90-ee3a-5ead-86ef-c5c8ccb80239)
Chapter 25 (#uc1a35e78-5930-5194-94d4-061508fc16b7)
Chapter 26 (#ub3650fbf-d401-5d93-9ca3-8127bcd846d2)
Chapter 27 (#ufd450da0-fc88-5687-ba35-41372b44c198)
Chapter 28 (#ud5eff6ac-657a-5ff9-a05b-ce3d9040f961)
Chapter 29 (#ucc46b64d-a756-5011-a1d8-25a053748350)
Chapter 30 (#uf825528c-5c05-5077-88af-c85293666d83)
Chapter 31 (#ue151538c-28d0-5dff-95d1-9fb6adbd0ea5)
Part Three: A Girl with a Secret (#ua5c160e9-958f-5532-882a-84f69d7417f5)
Chapter 32 (#u7a01b4c2-94d2-5b65-b603-65471518d6ae)
Chapter 33 (#ua526bf30-8c18-5092-aeca-7ba9cf4fd13b)
Chapter 34 (#uf0ea920b-3caf-534d-a8df-7825c3d698ff)
Chapter 35 (#u5127e016-41f5-557a-8af4-5937003e82c2)
Chapter 36 (#uc28af724-78ff-579e-a0ae-00db30dde5c0)
Chapter 37 (#u5d052cdf-e247-58e0-99f6-30312144cf98)
Chapter 38 (#ub6c896ab-5fe2-5a58-afed-1f608ff73271)
Chapter 39 (#u783c6a55-b057-5721-bdad-7c19432234e0)
Chapter 40 (#u5b04370b-eef4-56a6-b40e-cd394302fef2)
Chapter 41 (#ub2254b5c-2c8c-5fe7-9b4f-ab7a8dca9fe3)
Chapter 42 (#uddaf3c82-8a04-5eba-95a0-ac43095f9e53)
Chapter 43 (#ued5f63d7-b6d4-51b5-b030-93087f896b06)
Chapter 44 (#uf57e77fc-1a30-56e8-ad48-a3211652c0ef)
Chapter 45 (#ufb836908-12bb-50dd-b494-8ffbe4d1d1c7)
Chapter 46 (#u579a93e0-f562-57f5-8bea-02187542a860)
Chapter 47 (#udb2140a5-94e5-5e44-8f72-20a5ea3c09eb)
Chapter 48 (#u69359234-32bd-5e2b-bcd1-96cefa78779b)
Chapter 49 (#u38724637-5d57-5d71-8a35-7bd4ea41981b)
Chapter 50 (#ubd720347-9081-516a-9947-d55e3ac596e4)
Chapter 51 (#ubc645a96-1d88-5cce-a700-564873eec086)
Chapter 52 (#ue3585e3d-00ba-510f-9c5f-bdbc9683e5f2)
Chapter 53 (#u7f6524ca-89da-59e2-913e-b25a87e0b7b1)
Chapter 54 (#u3889abd1-deda-54c8-a9ad-18134c8cc86e)
Chapter 55 (#u73eec491-cd2d-5f2c-88ed-561b9d957dbd)
Chapter 56 (#uc63744b1-5077-5b33-b7cd-098636d00d12)
Chapter 57 (#u1337c254-e488-5dba-a87b-67056d5eddfa)
Chapter 58 (#u89e37f2a-6f25-5279-9512-3547193858d2)
Chapter 59 (#u5fd2f308-59fb-5b6b-930c-ab41e1d86c0a)
Chapter 60 (#u91e671c5-ed6d-5819-98e3-beda630e092a)
Chapter 61 (#uded0b97f-569c-526b-8df2-3cc1915d4b41)
Chapter 62 (#u6d87a84c-7d1a-5f7b-862b-ba076e9022cf)
Postscript, 2015 (#u8062292c-6abc-57b6-b19c-3e78ac4412f9)
Epilogue (#u2bddfcd1-60e6-5d23-bd72-8e64e33e3685)
Read on for The Book of Lost and Found
A Q and A with Lucy Foley
Reading group Questions
A note on Inspiration from Lucy
Lucy’s Guide to Corsica
Keep Reading from The Invitation (#u5f6a26aa-2ad1-52c1-b7da-c555768b6589)
Acknowledgements (#u52d3f5c7-4f6d-528c-82ee-b67f03aefe5c)
About the Author (#u7f094061-b585-538a-9d6c-c046ef944f93)
About the Publisher (#u1f6b76ed-ad57-5c64-8a56-8dfebe066922)
The Portrait (#ulink_4c45fb8a-9b40-54a4-99c5-62138465cdc6)
She hangs in the National Portrait Gallery now. Her smile has not faltered through the years, and her hair still falls just above her jaw, as sleek as cat’s fur. She sits awkwardly: the pose of a moment held for eternity. Her eyes squint slightly, shielded from an invisible sun by her hand.
Who is she? The drawing bears no clue, nor the little square of text beside it.
Friend is a difficult word – it can conceal so much. Who was she, really, to the young man who sat down and sketched her one afternoon, with the spoils of their picnic beside them? Even this most gifted of artists is restricted by his medium to work only in the realm of the visible. Some things must be lost to time.
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