The Lost Daughter

<p><strong>A NEW EDITION TO TIE IN WITH THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM DIRECTED BY MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL <br> STARRING OLIVIA COLMAN DAKOTA JOHNSON AND PAUL MESCAL</strong></p> <p><strong>From the international bestselling author of MY BRILLIANT FRIEND</strong></p> <p>Leda is devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father in Canada Leda anticipates a period of loneliness and longing. Instead slightly embarrassed by the sensation she feels liberated as if her life has become lighter easier.</p> <p>She decides to take a holiday by the sea in a small coastal town in southern Italy. But after a few days of calm and quiet things begin to take a menacing turn. Leda encounters a family whose brash presence proves unsettling at times even threatening. When a small apparently meaningless event occurs Leda is overwhelmed by memories of the difficult and unconventional choices she made as a mother and their consequences for herself and her family. The seemingly serene tale of a woman’s pleasant rediscovery of herself soon becomes the story of a ferocious confrontation with an unsettled past. </p> <p><em>The Lost Daughter</em> is a compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood exploring the conflicting emotions that tie us to our children.</p> <p><strong>18M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide</strong></p> <p><strong>18M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide</strong></p> <p><strong>NOW A MAJOR FILM BY MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL STARRING OLIVIA COLMAN</strong></p> <p>A compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood exploring the</p> <p>conflicting emotions that tie us to our children.</p> <p><strong>Key Selling Points</strong></p> <p>• Edition to tie-in with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut (a film starring Olivia Colman Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal of Normal People)</p> <p>• Over 13 million copies of the Neapolitan Quartet sold worldwide</p> <p>• A <em>Sunday Times </em>and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author</p> <p>• Her latest novel <em>The Lying Life of Adults </em>was #2 Critics’ Pick of 2020 and shortlisted for the British Book Award for fiction</p> <p>• Other upcoming adaptations include <em>The Lying Life of Adults</em> (NETFLIX original series) <em>Days of Abandonment</em> (a film starring Natalie Portman)</p> <p><strong>Target readership</strong></p> <p>• Fans of Ferrante</p> <p>• Readers of women’s fiction and fans of film</p> Ferrante's novels are tactile and sensual visceral and dizzying. It’s Leda’s voice that’s hypnotic and it’s the writing that makes it that way. Ferrante can do a woman’s interior dialogue like no one else with a ferocity that is shockingly honest unnervingly blunt Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral Ferrante is a hypnotist. [Ferrante] describes the female experience so intimately and so vividly that the reader feels like she could (and should) know the writer personally. “A raw gritty and gripping meditation of the difficulties of motherhood.” “An absorbingly shaped psychological drama built around a single traumatising event from which the action metastasises.” “Subtly daring.” “Entirely gripping….. a literary film with a literary script.” “Sadness is lanced through the heart of Gyllenhaal’s film which she both adapted and directed but it’s rich and luxurious in its texture.” “Adapted from Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name The Lost Daughter is a heady exercise in restraint.