The Lost Daughter

"Lucy Ferriss's The Lost Daughter delivers the goods: flawed but sympathetic characters and a plot that will keep readers turning the pages voraciously. From its harrowing prologue to its final sentences, I was emotionally engaged with this fine novel. Ferriss is a masterful storyteller."

-Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True

"The Lost Daughter is a complex, engaging novel about guilt, secrecy, and the mysteries of family. Lucy Ferriss is a courageous and thought-provoking writer."

-Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of The Abstinence Teacher, Little Children and The Leftovers

"Lucy Ferriss holds a mirror to today's headlines, smashes it, and turns the splintered shards into a tension-filled, beautifully written story of the moment, when a deadly secret takes on a life of its own."

-Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of Girls of Tender Age

"In The Lost Daughter, Lucy Ferriss has crafted a moving tale of sin and redemption, motherhood and second chances, that is sure to touch the reader's heart. This is a plot fully loaded, with flawed, compelling characters, in whom we recognize our best dreams of ourselves."

-Eric Goodman, author of Twelfth, Race and Child of My Right Hand

"The Lost Daughter is an intelligent, entertaining, and deeply moving book about three courageous people who think they have escaped the past-"with its small-town gossip and strip malls and mistakes"-only to find that they are still deeply entangled with it and with each other. This is my favorite of Lucy Ferriss's novels and I read it with great pleasure."

-Molly Giles, author of Iron Shoes and Creek Walk

"Ah, motherhood-who can know your bliss, your ache, your secrets? Lucy Ferriss knows and tells in this face-paced, engrossing, and sometimes gruesome tale of mothers and daughters who are not what anyone expected."

-Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation and Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War

"The Lost Daughter is a hugely affecting meditation on the fragility of even the strongest bonds, when it comes to marriage, and the way in the midst of the surprising intensities of a blissful union, we can still be all thumbs, emotionally, our own hearts feeling to us like foreign objects. And yet it's also about the courage and grace the best of us continually manage, despite our myriad shortcomings. This is a beautifully constructed and moving novel."

-Jim Shepard, author of You Think That's Bad

"In her well-crafted novel, Ferriss considers the tender moments that shape our choices and challenge our most sacred bonds. Her story reminds us how vulnerable our destinies are to the mistakes of our pasts."

-Elizabeth Brundage, author of A Stranger Like You and The Doctor's Wife

"This achingly beautiful novel about marriage and love, pulsing with complex life, is the work of a master American realist, up there with Richard Yates or anyone else. With spell-binding attentiveness and intimacy it explores what a husband and wife can be sure they know about each other but also, in prose wearing night-vision glasses, the inaccessible places where the hidden past lies threateningly coiled, and which love must also find a way to reach."

-Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name