The redemptive power of stories and family is revealed in\u00a0<\/b>New York Times<\/i><\/b>\u00a0bestselling author John Connolly\u2019s atmospheric tale set in the same magical universe as the \u201cenchanting, engrossing, and enlightening\u201d (<\/b>Sun Sentinel<\/i><\/b>, Fort Lauderdale)\u00a0<\/b>The Book of Lost Things<\/i><\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cTwice upon a time\u2014for that is how some stories should continue\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
In this \u201cdark fairy tale\u201d (Kirkus Reviews<\/i>), Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident\u2014a 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.<\/p>\n
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 father\u2014a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; a land where old enemies are watching and waiting\u2026<\/p>\n
The Land of Lost Things.<\/p>\n