Lost Children

by Christopher Hart

Four English medical students in Central America - young, idealistic, and longing to help out. This is no easy destination, with its crime and corruption, street gangs, drug lords and endemic violence. And when full-scale civil war threatens to erupt, the young idealists wisely head home - all except the enigmatic Nicholas, who has already fallen in love with his adoptive family, with their peaceful village life in the highlands, with this whole, chaotic, spellbinding country of flowers and fiestas, cloud forests and butterflies, earthquakes and volcanoes. But tragedy will come even to this tranquil valley, and when his family is rent apart, he embarks upon a terrifying journey to find a little girl lost, and a dark odyssey into the teeming, infernal city.A thrilling, haunting and deeply moving tour-de-force, Lost Children is an unforgettable story of privilege and poverty, First World and Third, ideals and realities - and the longing of the lost child for a family ... Critical Acclaim for Lost Edgy and totally gripping, the story is written with a cinematic vividness … you feel that the writer has really been there – Sunday Times Told with emotional intensity, it moves you to tears – Daily MailTimely, exotic, tragicomic …. Hart's skilfully crafted novel evokes a vision of Central America you won't find in the tourist brochures. It is all the better for it – Literary Review

480 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 15, 2018

About the author

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AKA William Napier.
Christopher Hart (born 1965) is an English novelist and journalist.

He was educated at Cheltenham College (expelled), Leicester University (dropped out), Oxford Polytechnic and Birkbeck College, London, where he completed a PhD on W.B.Yeats.

Under his original name he has written two contemporary novels, The Harvest and Rescue Me. Since 2001, he has written four historical novels under the pseudonym of William Napier, the last three a best-selling trilogy about Attila the Hun and the Fall of the Roman Empire.

As a journalist he has worked as Literary Editor of the Erotic Review (magazine folded) and Agony Aunt for Time Out (sacked.) He currently writes regularly for the Sunday Times, where he is lead theatre critic, and the Daily Mail.

Reviews

[Colin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. Wonderful characters and gripping story. Would have given it 5 stars but felt that the ending was rushed and unconvincing. Spoiled it a little for me. Couldn't put it down however.