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The Lost Girls: A Novel Fox, Laurie

Wendy has long heard the family legend madness strikes the Darling women at a certain age, traditionally after romance visits in the form of an overgrown boy The Darling girl will fall in love, the boy will desert, and the girl is left on her heels, heartbroken and flirting ever after with lunacys lure Wendy knows she should be grateful for her childhood adventure, but instead she finds herself adrift; resenting the heartacheturnedeccentricity of her mother; envious of the oddball antics of her GreatNana; and consumed by the mystery of her grandmother Jane, whose disappearance following her own youthful romance remains unsolvedWhen Wendy falls in love with Freeman, an exuberant and irreverant manchild himself, she finds herself perpetuating the pattern she thought she had missed And then along comes her daughter, Berry, the precocious but sullen child with the eyes of a sage When it is Berrys time to go off to The Neverland, Wendy, like so many mothers before her, questions who she has become Is she barking mad? Is Berry?