The Land of Lost Things: the highly anticipated follow up to The Book of Lost Things Connolly John (2023)

Eight-year-old Phoebe lies comatose after a car accident, a body without a spirit and a stolen child. Her mother, Ceres, sits at her bedside and reads aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves, hoping they will summon her back to this world. When it becomes difficult to keep faith, an old house on the hospital grounds begins calling to Ceres. The property is connected to a book written by a vanished author, and something wants her to enter and journey to the Land of Lost Thingsa place shaped by memories of Ceress childhood and her fathers beloved folklore, where witches, dryads, giants and mandrakes dwell, and old enemies watch and wait. This dark fairy tale sequel to The Book of Lost Things explores a mothers devotion, love, loyalty and sacrifice.