TheBookofLostandFound

The Book of Lost & Found LUCY FOLEY Dedication To my grandmothers CONTENTS Dedication The Portrait Part One: The Work of a Master 1 2 3 4 5 Part Two: The Logic of a Fairy Tale 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Part Three: A Girl with a Secret 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 Postscript, 2015 Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Advance Praise for The Book of Lost and Found Copyright About the Publisher The Portrait She hangs in the National Portrait Gallery now. Her smile has not faltered through the years, and her hair still falls just above her jaw, as sleek as cat’s fur. She sits awkwardly: the pose of a moment held for eternity. Her eyes squint slightly, shielded from an invisible sun by her hand. Who is she? The drawing bears no clue, nor the little square of text beside it. A friend of the artist’s, circa 1929, pen and ink. Friend is a difficult word – it can conceal so much. Who was she, really, to the young man who sat down and sketched her one af......