Author: Gelfuso, Hayley
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 6 November 2025 by ATLANTIC BOOKS in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 400 pages
234 x 156 |
A sweeping, cinematic love story about memory and community for fans of The Ministry of Time, The Midnight Library and The Book Thief.
'A love story that defies the boundaries of time, memory and reality' Patti Callahan Henry'The Book of Lost Hours performs actual magic' Daria Lavelle'An astounding debut' Jamie FordNuremberg, 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...
Readers are loving The Book of Lost Hours'I loved this one!''It soars because of the characters''Hard to put down''Clever, beautiful, genre-bending''A fabulous debut'