Lost and Wanted

Endlessly rich … It is Freudenberger’s willingness to accept human contradictions here - and to lay them out with a combination of calm rigour and rueful comedy - that so triumphantly makes Lost and Wanted the real thing * The Times *
Dazzling …[Freudenberger explores] the nature of ambition, success and grief … brilliant – Francesca Segal * Financial Times *
Freudenberger has a real eye for the subtle differences in how people react to adversity, an ear for the way children talk, and an artist’s clear-sighted commitment to seeing the totality of her characters * Sunday Times *
The effect is beautiful … Reading it, I was moved by intimacies near and far, real and imagined, lost and found in all the echoing corners of the expanding universe * New York Times *
This spooky mystery fuses nimbly explained science with a finely calibrated meditation on grief and paths not taken – Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *
Tender, sharply observed and marvellously rich * Daily Mail *
Are we connected? Are we alone? Freudenberger’s brilliant and compassionate novel takes on the big questions of the universe and proves, again, that she is one of America’s greatest writers – Andrew Sean Green, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘Less’
[A] stunning portrayal of grief … The integration of ideas from physics sparks in the reader new ways of thinking about the nature of time and existence as well as, on a less cosmic scale, about human relationships …This is a beautiful and moving novel * Publishers’ Weekly *
Dazzling . . . [Freudenberger] dramatizes, through Helen, both the dawning awareness that life doesn’t always allow for second chances and the great midlife consolation prize: a greater appreciation for those chances - and people - one has been given. * Washington Post *
With page-turning acceleration, Lost and Wanted is a piercing meditation on the immutable truths that mourning calls into question. Freudenberger [has a] gravity-defying gift * O, the Oprah Magazine *

Nell Freudenberger is the author of three previous works of fiction. She was selected for the New Yorker’s 20 under 40 and Granta’s Best of Young American Writers and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She writes regularly for the New York Times and the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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