Little Boy Lost (Classic edition) Category_Grey Books/Woman and Home she starts to understand herself

she starts to understand herself better and to have a new insight into the lives of her relations: the matriarchal ‘Madam Westover’ her grandmother

PREFACE BY RUTH GORB

But this is where the intelligence comes in: the writing is phenomenal – perceptive and clever

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or the emotions of someone fleeing the Nazis

Little Boy Lost (Classic edition) Category_Grey Books/Woman and Home she starts to understand herselfAFTERWORD BY ANNE SEBBA 232pp ISBN 9781906462055 'When I picked up this 1949 reprint I offered it the tenderly indulgent regard I would any period piece,' wrote Nicholas Lezard in the Guardian. 'As it turned out, the book survives perfectly well on its own merits although it nearly finished me. If you like a novel that expertly puts you through the wringer, this is the one. 'Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted