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Little Boy Lost
by Marghanita Laski

afterword by Anne Sebba

Synopsis
Marghanita Laski's 1949 novel is about an Englishman searching for his son in France in early 1946. Hilary Wainwright had a glimpse of him on the day he was born in June 1940; he learnt that he was lost three years later after the Gestapo had murdered his wife. After the war has ended he is able finally to try and find him.

Of all the books that Persephone Books Ltd have published, this is the most unputdownable in terms of plot, and only a reader with a heart of stone would think of not finishing it. As well as being a terrific read, it is a subtle and perceptive novel about a man's search for himself, about the effect of the war on the children of Europe, and about post-war France.
depicted without one single touch of what could be cloying sentimentality - walks straight in to the reader's heart
Elizabeth Bowen, Tatler