Lost Daughter The

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Leda is a middle-aged, divorced mother devoted to her work as an English professor. After the departure of her grown-up daughters, she takes a holiday on the Italian coast. But after a few days things become unsettling; on the beach she encounters a family whose brash behaviour proves menacing.

Leda is overwhelmed by memories of the difficult and unconventional choices she made as a mother and their consequences for herself and her family. The tale of a woman's rediscovery of herself soon becomes the story of a ferocious confrontation with the past.

The Lost Daughter is a profound exploration of the conflicting emotions that tie women to their children.

'This superb and scary Italian writer...has blown the lid off tempestuous parent-child relations.' Seattle Times

'So refined, almost translucent, that it seems about to float away, in the end this piercing novel is not so easily dislodged from the memory.' Boston Globe

'Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral.' New Yorker