Lost Property

by Laura Beatty (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2019

  $4.23

  'Clever, brave and urgent. I thought about Lost Property for days after I finished it.' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall

  In the middle of her life, a writer ?nds herself in a dark wood, despairing at how modern Britain has become a place of such greed and indi?erence. In an attempt to understand her country and her species, she and her lover rent a busted-out van and journey through France and down to the Mediterranean, across Italy and the Balkans, ?nishing in Greece and its islands. Along the way, they drive through the Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the Italian Renaissance, the 1990s and on to the current refugee crisis, encountering the shades of history, sometimes ?guratively and sometimes - such as Joan of Arc, sitting pertly in the back of the van - quite literally.

  As she roadtrips through 10,000 years of civilization, watching humanity repeat itself with wars over borderlines and exceed itself with the creation of timeless art, the writer begins to reckon with the very worst and the very best in our collective natures - and it is in seeing the beauty beside the ugliness, the light among the trees, that she begins to see, ?nally, a way for her to go home.

• New

  Illustrated
  2019

  $15.68

  'Clever, brave and urgent. I thought about Lost Property for days after I finished it.' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall

  In the middle of her life, a writer ?nds herself in a dark wood, despairing at how modern Britain has become a place of such greed and indi?erence. In an attempt to understand her country and her species, she and her lover rent a busted-out van and journey through France and down to the Mediterranean, across Italy and the Balkans, ?nishing in Greece and its islands. Along the way, they drive through the Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the Italian Renaissance, the 1990s and on to the current refugee crisis, encountering the shades of history, sometimes ?guratively and sometimes - such as Joan of Arc, sitting pertly in the back of the van - quite literally.

  As she roadtrips through 10,000 years of civilization, watching humanity repeat itself with wars over borderlines and exceed itself with the creation of timeless art, the writer begins to reckon with the very worst and the very best in our collective natures - and it is in seeing the beauty beside the ugliness, the light among the trees, that she begins to see, ?nally, a way for her to go home.