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050			_aPS3618.E5726 _bL67 2024
100			_aShaffer, Meg _926551 _eauthor
245			_aThe lost story _c/ Meg Shaffer.
260			_aLondon : _bArcadia, an imprint of Quercus Editions, _c2024.
300			_a329 pages : _bmap ; _c24 cm.
520			_aInspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes - just in case - from the author of The Wishing Game. As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell vanished in a West Virginia state park, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd gone or how they'd survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Jeremy is a famous missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to find the lost, while Rafe is a reclusive artist unable to stop creating otherworldly paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. He bears scars inside and out from his disappearance but has no memory of what happened while they were gone. Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth behind their time in the woods. While the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end when vet tech Emilie Wendel hires Jeremy to find her long-lost sister ... the long-lost sister he and Rafe knew while living in that hidden kingdom. Now the former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy return to the enchanted world they called home for six months ... for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost.
650		0	_aArtists _vFiction _925596
650		0	_aFriendship _vFiction _923929
650		0	_aImaginary places _vFiction _924132
650		0	_aMagic _vFiction _924059
650		0	_aMissing persons _vFiction _924148
650		0	_aMissing persons _xInvestigation _vFiction _925609
650		0	_aSecrecy _vFiction _925722
655		0	_aMagic realist fiction _924024
655		0	_aPortal fantasy fiction _926552
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