"Every love story is a ghost story" Can we truly fathom someone else's suffering and inner pain when it comes to grief or when we read a famous poem or witness a monument of lost love, do we only project those ideals and expectations onto our own pain and relate without questioning? When do we let go? The Lost History of Dreams is one of those stories that hits hard and leaves you with many thoughts, long pauses of recollections on interests and can be called "soul-baring". Set in Victorian England we follow various characters who experience haunting loss and abandonment in different degrees and planes. If you love Wuthering Heights, works of Poe, Du Maurier, Ovid and Byron, this novel is for you as this is a grand sweeping and atmospheric gothic tale with mystery, rich depth, complex symbolism and some unexpected swoon-worthy moments that make us all hope to find our own "locus amoenus" someday. With many thanks to Atria Books and NetGalley who sent me an advanced copy of The Lost History of Dreams -EGP/January 2019 Comments are closed.
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