After a family scene and during an air raid, David himself disappears - into a land where all the myths, fairy tales and romances come from. In a huge house passed down in Rose's family, bookish David takes a room once lived in by a relative who mysteriously disappeared along with his little sister. The novel plays any number of games with stories famous and forgotten.Īt the outbreak of the Second World War, David is grieving over the death of his mother and resentful that his father - a code-breaker - has remarried Rose, a woman he casts as a wicked stepmother, and that they have had a baby. After her passing, his father begins seeing a woman named Rose. He’s only aware of his present surrounding and his gravely ill mother who soon succumbs to her illness. David and his parents live under the threat of war, but being a fairly young child he isn’t yet aware of the situation. It's a tricksy approach, but then again this is a book with a trickster for a villain: the Crooked Man, who is also Rumplestiltskin of the fairy tale. The story takes place during the bombing of London. But late in the day we are told that the book we are holding is also part of the plot, purportedly authored not by thriller writer John Connolly but by the grown-up version of David, the 12-year-old who seems to be the hero of the third-person narrative. The Hitchcock-style plot "MacGuffin" is the search for a scrapbook called "The Book of Lost Things" owned by the king of a magical land. As suggested by the title, The Book of Lost Things is a novel that contains itself.
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