'Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. The novel asks: is the child really his? And does he want him? These are questions you can take to be as metaphorical as you wish: the novel works perfectly well as straight narrative. It's extraordinarily gripping: it has the page-turning compulsion of a thriller while at the same time being written with perfect clarity and precision. 'Had it not got so nerve-wracking towards the end, I would have read it in one go. But Laski's understated assurance and grip is almost astonishing. She has got a certain kind of British intellectual down to a tee: part of the book's nail-biting tension comes from our fear that Hilary won't do something stupid. The rest of Little Boy Lost's power comes from the depiction of post-war France herself. This is haunting stuff.' '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.

Little Boy Lost (New Windmills)

Marghanita Laski

Cresset Press, Inc.

To Bed with Grand Music

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

ISIS Publishing

Isis Publishing Ltd

Little Boy Lost

Literary

John Goodchild Publishers

Ecstasy in Secular and Religious Experience (Library of Spiritual Classics)

Ecstasy in Secular and Religious Experience (Library of Spiritual Classics)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

J.P. Tarcher

A penetrating discussion between "The Atheist and the Archbishop" - Anthony Bloom's famous television discussion with Marghanita Laski - on the essence of Christian faith and life opens this book of five selections. Summarizing the Christian life in terms of worship, joy, and the challenge to grow into a full stature, Metropolitan Anthony calls for a worshipful attitude to life. 
In other essays on "Doubt and the Christian Life," "Man and God," and "Holiness and Prayer," he seeks to reveal the true nature of man by looking to Christ, the true man and true God. Man, he states, becomes truly human only when he is united with God, infinitely, deeply, inseparably, so that the fullness of God abides in the flesh. Thus, in terms of holiness, all holiness is God's holiness in us; it is the expression of love - the response of the love given by God to His Church.

God and Man

Anthony Bloom

Religion & Spirituality

St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

Persephone Books Ltd.

Persephone Books

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