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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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THE LOST
It is 1921 and HARRY BLYTHE, an ex-serviceman in his mid-twenties, is working as a studio portrait photographer in London. To stir up business his employer places an advertisement in a newspaper offering to take images of war graves abroad for bereaved families who cannot travel there themselves. Harry reluctantly returns to the Western Front with a list of names and places. He feels burdened by the commission, but it all becomes more immediate and disturbing to him when he sees his own brother's name on the list.
The ravishing EDIE, Harry's sister-in-law, wants a photograph of the grave of her husband, FRANCIS. However, Francis was reported Missing, believed killed', and though Harry and Edie have both already made lengthy enquiries, they have been unable to find any clues as to what exactly happened to him at the end. As far as Harry knows, no grave exists for Francis. So how can he ever complete the task that Edie has given him? It comes as a complete surprise then when, a few months later, he receives a postcard from Edie en route to Belgium. What has prompted her decision to make that journey? Could it be the envelope full of photographs taken by Francis during the war which someone has sent her anonymously?
Harry travels from Picardy to Flanders, through the strange, ill-used landscape, full of ruins and reconstruction, peopled by war pilgrims and tourists. Revisiting once-familiar places, Harry is forced to recall the last few weeks of his brother's life. Troubled and full of questions, he suddenly encounters Edie in Ypres. Confronting her, he begins to realise she might be clinging on to the hope that Francis could still be alive. What really happened in the traumatic days of the war?
From the bitter cold of the north, to the heat of the south of France, Harry and Edie are both on separate quests. Will they be destroyed by the truth of the past before they can declare their love and move into the future?
Originally from Lancashire, Caroline Scott has spent much of her working life in France and Belgium. While completing a PhD in history, she was headhunted by an investment bank and eventually ended up working in the Antwerp diamond trade. But Caroline's love of history always nagged at her, and in 2013 she parachuted out of the career plan to become a full-time writer. She is passionate about telling the story of women's lives during times of conflict. Caroline's first novel, Those Measureless Fields (Pen & Sword Books Limited), was published in 2014, and followed by two histories: The Manchester Bantams: The Story of a Pals Battalion and a City at War (Pen & Sword, 2017) and Holding the Home Front: The Women's Land Army in the First World War (Pen & Sword, 2017). She has written feature articles, mostly with a historical slant, for a number of magazines and blogs about wartime food at: kitchenatwar.wordpress.com.
The ravishing EDIE, Harry's sister-in-law, wants a photograph of the grave of her husband, FRANCIS. However, Francis was reported Missing, believed killed', and though Harry and Edie have both already made lengthy enquiries, they have been unable to find any clues as to what exactly happened to him at the end. As far as Harry knows, no grave exists for Francis. So how can he ever complete the task that Edie has given him? It comes as a complete surprise then when, a few months later, he receives a postcard from Edie en route to Belgium. What has prompted her decision to make that journey? Could it be the envelope full of photographs taken by Francis during the war which someone has sent her anonymously?
Harry travels from Picardy to Flanders, through the strange, ill-used landscape, full of ruins and reconstruction, peopled by war pilgrims and tourists. Revisiting once-familiar places, Harry is forced to recall the last few weeks of his brother's life. Troubled and full of questions, he suddenly encounters Edie in Ypres. Confronting her, he begins to realise she might be clinging on to the hope that Francis could still be alive. What really happened in the traumatic days of the war?
From the bitter cold of the north, to the heat of the south of France, Harry and Edie are both on separate quests. Will they be destroyed by the truth of the past before they can declare their love and move into the future?
Originally from Lancashire, Caroline Scott has spent much of her working life in France and Belgium. While completing a PhD in history, she was headhunted by an investment bank and eventually ended up working in the Antwerp diamond trade. But Caroline's love of history always nagged at her, and in 2013 she parachuted out of the career plan to become a full-time writer. She is passionate about telling the story of women's lives during times of conflict. Caroline's first novel, Those Measureless Fields (Pen & Sword Books Limited), was published in 2014, and followed by two histories: The Manchester Bantams: The Story of a Pals Battalion and a City at War (Pen & Sword, 2017) and Holding the Home Front: The Women's Land Army in the First World War (Pen & Sword, 2017). She has written feature articles, mostly with a historical slant, for a number of magazines and blogs about wartime food at: kitchenatwar.wordpress.com.