A review by wendoxford
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

3.0

I did really like this book but there were two things that made it less than perfect for me. Usually I am un-bothered by the style of period writing but the over-extended descriptions, feelings (shown and un-shown) would have been exmeplified so much better (and elicited a better reader response) in the more contemporary way of "show not tell". The only time we saw action rather than internalised action was right at the end. The tension there was so much more palpable when the author used this technique.
That said, the setting and close-up view of post-war France and a man trying to re-build himself was fascinating and made the book compulsive.