The powerful story of two siblings trying to survive extreme poverty by the multi-award-winning, Waterstones Children’s Book Prize-shortlisted author of Boy 87

Lola’s life is about to become unrecognisable. So is Lola.

Everything used to be comfortable. She lived in a big house with her family, where her biggest problems were arguing with her little brother or being told she couldn’t have a new phone. But as one disaster follows another, the threads of her home and family begin to unravel.

Cut off from everything she has known before, Lola must find a new way to survive.

Now, an ordinary girl must become extraordinary.

Reviews

Lost is a breathless, thrilling adventure, a story to make your heart beat faster. Lola is a wonderful girl, resourceful, brave and loyal, and I desperately wanted her to find her way home

A gripping tale of a young girl lost in a concrete jungle. It shows how hope, determination and friendship can win through, even in the most challenging environment

This book will arouse compassion for society’s lost, reminding readers how small the difference may be between them and us

Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week

Fountain writes with verisimilitude and verve. Novels are works of imagination and this book’s compassion overrides any questions about the ‘right to write’

Kitty Empire, Observer

Ele Fountain’s vivid page-turner conjures the world of street children with empathy and compassion

Succeeds as a page-turning survival adventure and as an indictment of global capitalism’s brutality… Suspenseful and gripping… a fable of hope in harrowing conditions

Kirkus

This gripping, poignant and timely novel shines a humane light on the deep inequalities of our world as two children search for family, friendship and the safe, loving heart of home

Page-turning

Irish Times

Praise for Boy 87

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Exceptional… vivid, convincing and empathetic… it grips us with the need to know how the heart-stopping events will turn out

Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week

Full of tension, fear, heartbreak and hope, it conveys both the bitterness of having family, home and identity stolen away piecemeal, and a courageous determination to survive

Guardian