The Lost Child (31 page)
Authors: Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips
is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including
Dancing in the Dark
,
Crossing the River
, and
Color Me English
.
His novel
A Distant Shore
won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and his other awards include a Lannan Foundation Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York. Sign up for email updates
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ALSO BY
CARYL PHILLIPS
FICTION
In the Falling Snow
Dancing in the Dark
A Distant Shore
The Nature of Blood
Crossing the River
Cambridge
Higher Ground
A State of Independence
The Final Passage
NONFICTION
Colour Me English
Foreigners
A New World Order
The Atlantic Sound
The European Tribe
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First edition, 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Phillips, Caryl.
The lost child / Caryl Phillips. — First edition.
pages cm.
ISBN 978-0-374-19137-5 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71230-3 (ebook)
1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Alienation (Social psychology)—Fiction I. Brontë, Emily, 1818–1848. Wuthering heights. II. Title.
PR9275.S263 P47645 2015
823'.914—dc23
2014016995