Lost and Wanted

She is one of America's greatest writers' Andrew Sean Greer Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less'Beautiful' New York TimesIn the first few months after Charlie died I began hearing from her much more frequently' Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie her closest friend from university with whom she hasn't spoken in over a year Helen thinks there must be some mistake. Because Charlie died two days ago. Then when her young son Jack claims to have seen Charlie in their house just the other day Helen begins to have doubts. Through the grief of the husband and daughter she left behind Helen is drawn into the orbit of Charlie's world slotting in the missing pieces of her friend's past. And as she delves into the web of their shared history Helen finds herself entangled in the forgotten threads of her own life. Lost and Wanted is a searing novel from one of America's most exciting writers about the sacred knottiness of female friendship the forces which fuse us together and those which drive us apart. 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'A real powerhouse of a novel' Ben Fountain'Tender engaging' Dava Sobel 'You'll be beguiled' Jonathan Lethem'Dazzling' Washington Post 'Deeply involving substantial suspenseful and psychologically lush' Booklist'A stunning portrayal of grief' Publishers' Weekly