John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things

World Book Club by BBC

May 1, 202662:52Society & Culture

Harriett Gilbert welcomes John Connolly to World Book Club to answer your question on his beautiful, but twisted fairy tale - The Book of Lost Things. Set in the Second World War. The novel tells the tale of twelve-year-...

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