![]() ![]() It’s a war-torn kingdom, like his own, but it’s tricksters, witches, and beasts that are attacking. This world has the familiar pieces of David’s beloved fairy tales, but everything is much more perverted, violent, and uncomfortable. One night during an air raid, David hears his mother’s voice calling to him from the garden, and there he finds himself pulled into another world. He is a bit curious about the appearance of a figure he calls the Crooked Man. ![]() He doesn’t mind – his mother used to tell him stories were alive, and he keeps a connection to his mother through reading. The arrival of a new brother exacerbates David’s discontent, and as his grief and resentment grow, he finds the books in his room speaking to him. ![]() His father remarries, and his new wife is kind, but David cannot help but resent her, and this resentment increases when they move into her family home in the country as their home city gets blitzed. ![]() The Book of Lost Things is about David, a twelve-year-old in WWII-era England who has recently lost his mother. I am a bad book friend! But it was worth the wait? I am overwhelmed by them, and my guilt at holding onto your artifact will not affect my scattered method of attacking my TBR. ![]()
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