The End of Getting Lost
A Novel
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Margaret Qualley and Paul Mescal!
A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage—a year that the woman has no memory of—in this “wildly beautiful and darkly sinister” (Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister) novel of intimacy and deceit.
The year is 1996—a time before cell phones, status updates, and location tags—when you could still travel to a remote corner of the world and disappear. This is where we meet Gina and Duncan, a young couple madly in love, traveling around Europe on a romantic adventure. It’s a time both thrilling and dizzying for Gina, whose memories are hazy following a head injury—and the growing sense that the man at her side is keeping secrets from her.
Just what is Duncan hiding and how far will he go to keep their pasts at bay? As the pair hop borders across Europe, their former lives threatening to catch up with them while the truth grows more elusive, we witness how love can lead us astray, and what it means to lose oneself in love.
The End of Getting Lost is a tightrope act of deception and an elegant exploration of love and marriage—as well as our cherished illisions of both. With notes of Patricia Highsmith, Caroline Kepnes, and Lauren Groff, Robin Kirman has spun an “atmospheric, lyrical” (Susie Yang, New York Times bestselling author of White Ivy) tale of deceit, redemption, and the fight to keep love alive—no matter the costs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kirman's skillful sophomore effort (after Bradstreet Gate) centers on a honeymooning couple's love and deception. The story opens with Gina Reinhold, a professional dancer in New York, and Duncan Lowy, a composer, at a lake outside of Zurich in the summer of 1996, on a delayed honeymoon a year after their wedding, with Gina recuperating from a head injury she'd suffered in Berlin. Weeks later, she still can't recall her accidental fall outside their hotel, or the months leading up to the trip, but in the aftermath of her hospitalization she feels closer to Duncan, who's loved her since they met at Yale several years earlier. They set off for Vienna, though Kirman creates an unsettling sense that all is not what it seems. The trip is funded by a mysterious commission from a young woman, Duncan's first major payday for his musical work; and a man named Graham Bonafair is urgently trying to reach them. In Vienna, Gina finds letters she'd written to her father and best friend that Duncan never sent, in which she writes that her marriage had collapsed. As Gina's memories re-emerge, Duncan's elaborate ruse unfolds. Kirman keeps up the suspense, though the action gets a little bonkers as Duncan grows increasingly desperate. This twisty page-turner delivers.
