Lost, Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire's two previous books gave the Wicked Witch of the West and Cinderella's stepsister a voice -- his retellings of popular fairy tale fantasy were very successful. "Lost" is a depature from that genre into pure fantasy. Winifred Rudge, author and possible descendent of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge, has writer's block. Upon arriving for a visit to England, Winifred finds her cousin missing, a ghost haunting his chimney, and a dotty elderly neighbor who gets less dotty and more senile as time goes on. Winifred sets about solving these mysteries with gusto, happily ignoring her own problems while she does it. Things go from mad to madder when she is possessed by the spirit of an medieval Frenchwoman who needs to know whether her child lived when she died. "Lost" intrigues and confuses.
Posted by supersusie at January 21, 2004 3:26 AM