A review by katiegilley
Lost by Gregory Maguire

3.0

**Includes spoilers**returnreturnI'm not sure how I feel about this one. I started out loving it - Winifred Rudge is an author from the Boston area who travels to London to visit her cousin (but not by blood) and to research Jack the Ripper. When she arrives in London, her cousin is not home and she cannot find him. Furthermore, her cousin seems to have hired workers to remodel his kitchen and they hear strange noises and are scared out of their minds.returnreturnThe main mysteries of the book involve finding her cousin and solving this haunting sound. She investigates the people living in and around the building and seems to be going quite mad herself.returnreturnThe text of this novel is interrupted with the novel that Winnie herself is writing. Sometimes it seems like the two are on totally different wavelengths but it starts to make a little more sense at the end. There were some boring spots but the plot wasn't totally predictable, which kept me reading. At times I felt it was a bit anti-feminist: Winnie's life seems to disintegrate when the men in her life leave her and she's unable to satisfy her desire of having a child. Even at the end of the story, she's looking for her ex and wondering if he's come back to her yet.returnreturnI enjoy ghost stories and this was definitely a good ghost story. Realistic? Of course not, but Maguire doesn't write realistic stories. My advice would be to take this is a ghost story and enjoy the ride!