The Book of Lost Hours: The global phenomenon historical fantasy that readers are loving

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Bookseller Reviews

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The Book of Lost Hours
I adored this one!
This is a really heartfelt, beautiful book. The Book of Lost Hours manages to be an historical fiction and speculative at the same time, at its heart this ... READ MORE
Kyrsten at Chester

Synopsis

A sweeping, cinematic historical fantasy about memory and community for fans of The Ministry of Time, The Midnight Library and The Book Thief.
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'If you loved The Ministry of Time, you'll adore this!' SUN ON SUNDAY
'Cold-war spy thriller, soaring fantasy and heart-rending romance. Captivating' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'A love story that defies the boundaries of time, memory and reality' Patti Callahan Henry
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Nuremberg, 1938. Lisavet Levy's watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the Time Space - a vast, magical library where the memories of everyone who has ever lived are stored in books. Her father promises to follow, but he never comes.

Trapped in the library, she encounters timekeepers, who decide whose memories survive and whose are destroyed.

Lisavet tries to save as many memories as she can, but when she falls in love with a timekeeper, the whole course of history could be at stake...

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Readers are loving The Book of Lost Hours

'Truly such an incredible book'
'It soars because of the characters'
'Hard to put down'
'Clever, beautiful, genre-bending'
'A fabulous debut'

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • ISBN: 9781805464785
  • Number of pages: 400
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
  • Languages: English

Customer Reviews

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The Book of Lost Hours
A beautifully written, cinematic debut with a timey wimey twist - an absolute must-read.
This book is beautifully written, with a cinematic feel and an engrossing, gripping plot, and it’s hard to believe that it’s a debut novel. It moves seamle... READ MORE
Penelope Bullock
The Book of Lost Hours
Love through time
The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso is a highly imaginative story about Lisavet, who is living in the timespace where memories reside in books. Timeke... READ MORE
Amy Lewis
The Book of Lost Hours
An epic love story set across time
A sweeping and epic love story unfolds across time between Lisavet and Ernest. Born in 1927 in Germany, Lisavet’s father possessed the extraordinary abilit... READ MORE
Sonya Chullan
This reviewer received a free of charge product for review.
The Book of Lost Hours
The importance of memories
We are made of our memories, change them and change who we are. Delete them entirely or censor them to the past the victor chooses and we are doomed to rep... READ MORE
K. Bickmore
The Book of Lost Hours
An enjoyable read
An interesting and surprisingly quick read. This is a novel about love, memories, history and censorship. I really enjoyed the twin timelines which had a... READ MORE
Janet McMahon
The Book of Lost Hours
This book completely took me by surprise. I wasn’t expecting to be sucked in as quickly as I was
This book completely took me by surprise. I wasn’t expecting to be sucked in as quickly as I was, but from the opening chapters, The Book of Lost Hours had... READ MORE
stephen cadman