Lost & Found

A Treasure Trove of Folk Tales

‘It’s the job of each generation to make the old tales speak afresh, and in this collection Elizabeth Garner has fashioned a vibrant web’ Hugh Lupton

Folk tales take us beyond our own boundaries into unknown lands. Yet within these adventures, riddles and enchantments we find our common ground and shared humanity. 

Lost & Found is Elizabeth Garner’s own retelling of fifteen treasured folk tales that have nurtured, sustained, terrified and enthralled her in equal measure. Some of the stories are taken from the books of her childhood, some are remembered, and others she has discovered in her reading over the years.

Engraver Phoebe Connolly’s beautiful woodcut illustrations bring the friends and foes of folklore to life. The collection includes stories such as ‘The Riddle of the Crossroads’, ‘The Twisted Oak’, ‘The Wits of the Whetstone’ and more. With a varied and diverse cast of characters, Garner’s retellings expertly traverse a myriad of mysterious worlds; always staying true to tradition, while simultaneously speaking to modern times.

‘Garner’s collection captures many a moment of daylight, yet darkness runs through each of the fifteen tales. . . . Recurring characters and settings – Jack, the Inn, a certain devilish Gentleman – build a world in which the boundaries and precise temporality are always flickering, yet that also revels in materiality’ Lucy Fleming, Times Literary Supplement

Hardback: 272pp

Published: Wilton Square 

ISBN: 9781800181236