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A Note About the Author

Caryl Phillips
is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including
Dancing in the Dark
,
Crossing the River
, and
Color Me English
.

His novel
A Distant Shore
won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and his other awards include a Lannan Foundation Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York. Sign up for email updates
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ALSO BY
CARYL PHILLIPS

FICTION

In the Falling Snow

Dancing in the Dark

A Distant Shore

The Nature of Blood

Crossing the River

Cambridge

Higher Ground

A State of Independence

The Final Passage

NONFICTION

Colour Me English

Foreigners

A New World Order

The Atlantic Sound

The European Tribe

 

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CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

DEDICATION

I. SEPARATION

II. FIRST LOVE

III. GOING OUT

IV. THE FAMILY

V. BROTHERS

VI. CHILDHOOD

VII. FAMILY

VIII. ALONE

IX. THE JOURNEY

X. GOING HOME

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY CARYL PHILLIPS

COPYRIGHT

 

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Copyright © 2015 by Caryl Phillips

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First edition, 2015

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Phillips, Caryl.

    The lost child / Caryl Phillips. — First edition.

        pages cm.

    ISBN 978-0-374-19137-5 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71230-3 (ebook)

    1.  Orphans—Fiction.   2.  Alienation (Social psychology)—Fiction   I.  Brontë, Emily, 1818–1848. Wuthering heights.   II.  Title.

    PR9275.S263 P47645 2015

    823'.914—dc23

2014016995

 

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