The Book of Lost and Found: Sweeping, captivating, perfect summer reading

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)