A novel of female friendship . . . startling and moving New York Times In the first few months after Charlie died I began hearing from her much more frequently . . .When Helen Clapp gets a missed call from best friend Charlie she knows its a mistake. Because Charlies dead. Ghosts break so many fundamental laws of the universe that Helen a physicist shouldnt believe in them. Should sheAs this question draws Helen to Charlies grieving husband and daughter she finds herself entangled in the forgotten threads of lost friendship and her own paths not taken . . . There arent many novels that bring to mind both Middlemarch and Bridget Joness Diary but Lost and Wanted is one of them The TimesDazzling. Freudenberger explores the nature of ambition success and grief . . . brilliant Financial TimesBeautiful. I was moved by intimacies near and far real and imagined lost and found in all the echoing corners of the expanding universe New York Times