The Collector of Lost Things - Softcover

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Jeremy grew up in North Norfolk and has worked as a script editor and writer for FilmFour and the BBC, in addition to teaching on the Creative Writing MA at UEA. He lives in London with his wife and three children. He has published two previous novels with Viking UK and Viking US: Salt and The Wake.

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I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line. This was a place if there ever was a place, where you could disappear.

The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is hired to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the Great Auk, which became extinct the previous year. He joins a hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic, embroidery-loving Captain Sykes, the unpredictable First Mate French, the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley and, most importantly of all, Bletchley's beautiful but strange cousin Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past that haunts him.

A love story and a quest, whose protagonists are driven by obsession, love and ghosts, The Collector of Lost Things is an extraordinary read, lyrically written, with an intensely compelling plot.

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The Collector of Lost Things

Jeremy Page

Little, Brown