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"A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable about loss and a storyteller's ghosts."
- Boston Sunday Globe

And the world ... the world was already upside down or inside out; it was already Alice's mad Wonderland.

Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper.

Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over him home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades - some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past,

In the spirit of A.S. Byatt's Possession, with dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.

"A deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story."
- Publishers Weekly

"Reads with the pace and urgency of a thriller ... Nothing is quite what it seems, and each surprise deepens the story and makes it even more intriguing."
- Robert Plunket (The Advocate)