Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #193015 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

People Magazine
'invites comparison to The Lovely Bones. Ward's depiction of family, with its attendant love and guilt, keeps you turning pages.’

Kirkus
'A voyage of discovery cloaked in suburban ennui: engaging and hard to let go'

Time Out New York
'The narrative is so engrossing, so propelling, you're surprised to come upon the last page'

Customer Reviews

Thin plot - bland and predictable
I bought this book to recommend to my book club, because of the high ratings that it received. I was disappointed! The book is just OK, I found it bland, lacking excitement and the plot was thin and predictable in places. In its favour, it was an easy and quick read, which did not tax the brain too much. I did not hate the book, I just found it dull

You'll get lost in the pages of this book!!
Amanda Eyre Ward is one of the most talented writers i have ever come across. How to be lost is a fantastic second novel and tells the story of Caroline. A New Orleans cocktail waitress who goes in search of her missing sister after seeing a photograph of a woman who looks like Ellie all grown up in people magazine.
This novel is moving, funny, surprising, intelligent and utterly fantastic.

Haunting
I read quite a bit and this is one of the best books I have read in the last three years or so - a page turner but so much more. The story is haunting, having kids you just cannot imagine how losing one would affect everyone and you don't know until the last minute if it will be a happy ending, or not (I will not spoil it for you!).