John Connolly 
Land of Lost Things 
A Novel

The redemptive power of stories and family is revealed in New York Times bestselling author John Connolly’s atmospheric tale set in the same magical universe as the ’;enchanting, engrossing, and enlightening’ (Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale) The Book of Lost Things.’;Twice upon a timefor that is how some stories should continue’ Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accidenta 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. 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 fathera land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; a land where old enemies are watching and waiting The Land of Lost Things.