Caryl Phillips - The Lost Child

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The Lost Child is a complex, sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its heart is Monica, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild Yorkshire moors. When her younger son Tommy, a loner who is bullied at school, disappears, the family bond is demolished - with devastating results.

Deftly intertwined with this modern narrative is the story of the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys. Recovering the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, Phillips gets to the heart of alienation, exile and family, transforming Brontë’s classic into a profound story that is singularly his own.