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A review by emma_louise_books
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
5.0
I became thoroughly immersed in this heartbreaking and suspense filled story with its many layers of grief, love, friendship, displacement, poverty and portrayal of war-torn France.
On the periphery "Little Boy Lost" has a simple plot of a man (lead protagonist Hilary Wainwright) finding his little boy lost, yet Hilary is "lost" too, as are many of the other characters in the story from the aftermath of war. Hilary is a complex character, at times difficult to warm too as he questions himself if he really wants to find his little boy. Yet the reader cannot help but pity Hilary, a survivor who served in the British Army, as he questions if this little boy is really his, is he fit for fatherhood and a life of domesticity without his wife, the mother of his child.
A heart rending thriller which will have you wanting to keep turning the pages to know what happens.
On the periphery "Little Boy Lost" has a simple plot of a man (lead protagonist Hilary Wainwright) finding his little boy lost, yet Hilary is "lost" too, as are many of the other characters in the story from the aftermath of war. Hilary is a complex character, at times difficult to warm too as he questions himself if he really wants to find his little boy. Yet the reader cannot help but pity Hilary, a survivor who served in the British Army, as he questions if this little boy is really his, is he fit for fatherhood and a life of domesticity without his wife, the mother of his child.
A heart rending thriller which will have you wanting to keep turning the pages to know what happens.