Everything Book Club, "Loved and Missed" by Susie Boyt

When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower, a warm heart and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvelously absorbing contemporary novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs.

"If my tattered and heavily annotated copy of Loved and Missed serves as a harbinger, Boyt has written a 21st-century classic."
—Los Angeles Review of Books

Susie Boyt is the author of 7 novels and the memoir "My Judy Garland Life," which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, staged at the Nottingham Playhouse, and serialized on BBC Radio 4. She is also a director at the Hampstead Theatre. She lives in London with her family.