In this haunting memoir Alison Gold gives a luminous account of key moments in her life that brought her to be the writer she is They tell of her early activism; they tell of her descent into alcoholism; they tell of her recovery; they tell of her discovery of the power of writing to give a shape & meaning to a life Found & Lost is both a tender memorial to the extraordinary people in her life & a compelling tale of redemption Starting with her childhood experience of running her primary school ' Lost & Found' depot Gold develops though a series of letters a meditation on ageing friendship loss & the forces that link us to the dead In the very act of writing she begins to find a route out of depression & grief Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust stories of courage & survival
- most famously her Anne Frank Remembered co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family) She has never chosen to write about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people's stories until now in Found & Lost For she has chosen to go back to her childhood in order to chart the origin of her need to save objects stories people
- including herself
- who she has sensed to be on a road to perdition