{"product_id":"9780061556036","title":"Lost","description":"At the flat in Weatherall Walk there was no milk in the fridge, no ice in the tiny freezer unit.... The better furniture was hung over with drop cloths, the leather-bound books evacuated from their shelves.... Unconnected wiring threaded from walls, and a smell of lazy drains, something rotting, unfurled from the sewer all the way up to this flat. Winnie wrenched open a window. But no sign of John?\u003cp\u003eWinifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his apartment in the nineteenth-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie's great-great-grandfather.  Is it the spirit of this ancestor, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinnie begins to investigate, but John's erstwhile girlfriend, Allegra, is aggressively unhelpful, and his downstairs neighbor, the cat-obsessed Mrs. Maddingly, is growing stranger by the day.  Gripped by inspiration and desperation alike, Winnie finds herself the  unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades, some from her  family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  the spirit of A. S. Byatt's \u003ci\u003ePossession,\u003c\/i\u003e with dark overtones echoing  from \u003ci\u003eA Christmas Carol, Lost\u003c\/i\u003epresents a rich fictional world that will  enrapture Gregory Maguire's eager audience. \u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095020650736,"sku":"9780061556036","price":20.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061556036_p0.jpg?v=1763621140","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061556036","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}