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Little Boy Lost

Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. Is the child really his? And does he want him?

Genre
historical fictionworld war IIwar and militaryliterary fiction
Setting
world war IIenglandbritish
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 230 pages

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