num_pages: 230
description: Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. ... It's extraordinarily it has the page-turning compulsion of a thriller while at the same time being written with perfect clarity and precision.
language: English
title: Little Boy Lost
titlecomplete: Little Boy Lost
characters: Pierre Verdier, Jean, Hilary Wainwright
genres: Classics, British Literature, France, Historical, World War II, Modern Classics, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1230
places: France
publisher: Persephone