The Land Of Lost Things Av John Connolly

<b>The redemptive power of stories and family is revealed in <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author John Connolly’s atmospheric tale set in the same magical universe as the “enchanting, engrossing, and enlightening” (<i>Sun-Sentinel</i>, Fort Lauderdale) <i>The Book of Lost Things</i>.</b><BR><BR><i>“Twice upon a time—for that is how some stories should continue…”</i><BR><BR> Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident—a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world.<BR><BR> But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, to journey to a land colored by the memories of childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father—a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; a land wh