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The world before us / Aislinn Hunter.

by Hunter, Aislinn, 1969-

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Doubleday Canada, c2014.

Women archivists -- Fiction.

Missing children -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

419 p. ; 20 cm.

When she was just fifteen, smart, sensitive Jane Standen lived through a nightmare: she lost the sweet five-year-old girl she was minding during a walk in the woods. The little girl was never found, leaving her family, and Jane, devastated. Now the grown-up Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As her one last project, she is searching the archives for scraps of information related to another missing person--a woman who disappeared some 125 years ago from a Victorian asylum. As the novel moves back and forth between the museum in contemporary London, the Victorian asylum, and a dilapidated country house that seems to connect both missing people, it unforgettably explores the repercussions of small acts, the power of affection, and the irrepressible vitality of everyday objects and events.

Canadian fiction.

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