Name: Lost Traveller
ISBN: 9781860493041

Antonia White

Lost Traveller

"Everything had always been for her father; her mother was lucky to have an occasional crumb."

I was under the impression that this was a sequel to 

 (my favourite book) that followed Nanda, but was shortly disappointed when it was not. Nonetheless, once I overcame that feeling I truly did adore this book just as much. 

It's just as tragic in very similar ways but also different. It had all the components I loved from 

This felt like a more fleshed out novel than the previous and it is significantly longer. It's a true coming of age story as we follow Clara from her time at school in the Convent to becoming a governess during the war. What I love about White's writing is her ability to show the interiority of her characters and how you can just fall head over heels for them, or in the case of the father, want to just shout at him. It's this interiority building that left my mouth wide open at the event that happens to change the course of Clara's life because you just know the mental impact this was going to have on her.

So take this as a warning that this is not a sequel to 

 that follows Nanda; rather it's a sequel in the sense that this is a coming of age story of a girl in Catholicism. I will be adding the others to my list.

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"Everything had always been for her father; her mother was lucky to have an occasional crumb."

I was under the impression that this was a sequel to Frost in May (my favourite book) that followed Nanda, but was shortly disappointed when it was not. Nonetheless, once I overcame that feeling I truly did adore this book just as much. 

It's just as tragic in very similar ways but also different. It had all the components I loved from Frost in May: 


Catholicism, but where the father had converted to this at a later age and projected it upon the daughter. Although I did love how personal the relationship Clara had with it. It was uniquely hers and not her father's this time around.

The father's desire to shape and mould the daughter because he did not have a son.

The daughter's disdain for the mother because of her father's moulding, although this is softer in this novel and the ending was truly just magical.


This felt like a more fleshed out novel than the previous and it is significantly longer. It's a true coming of age story as we follow Clara from her time at school in the Convent to becoming a governess during the war. What I love about White's writing is her ability to show the interiority of her characters and how you can just fall head over heels for them, or in the case of the father, want to just shout at him. It's this interiority building that left my mouth wide open at the event that happens to change the course of Clara's life because you just know the mental impact this was going to have on her.
 
So take this as a warning that this is not a sequel to Frost in May that follows Nanda; rather it's a sequel in the sense that this is a coming of age story of a girl in Catholicism. I will be adding the others to my list.

Lost Traveller

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