THE LOST MOTHER is the riveting chronicle of the Talcotts, a family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, spend that summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. Henry, an itinerant butcher, struggles to provide for them, but often must leave them alone as he travels the county in search of work. He has not told the children why their mother left or if she'll return. When Mrs. Phyllis Farley, a prosperous neighbor, begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, Henry must weigh an unusual proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything.
Original material © 2005 Mary McGarry Morris. Recorded by arrangement with Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.
Mary McGarry Morris is the author of VANISHED, which was nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; A DANGEROUS WOMAN, which was chosen by Time as one of the five best novels of 1991; SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME, an Oprah Book Club Selection and New York Times bestseller; and the critically acclaimed FIONA RANGE and A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE. She lives in Andover, MA.
