Eva's life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination - an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her 'other', if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it's like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.
But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.
Now she must abandon everything she's ever known - the guardians who raised her, the boy she's forbidden to love - to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive.
Review
"Mandanna's debut novel is lovely and at times heartbreaking .... A thoughtful study of both a girl's search for her identity and the human reaction to death." (Publishers Weekly)
βBoth an interrogation of bioethics and a mesmerizing quest for identity, this debut succeeds through its careful development of the oh-so-human Eva and those around her. A provocative and page-turning thriller/romance that gets at the heart of what it means to be human.β (Kirkus Reviews )
βTHE LOST GIRL was the most honest portrait of grief and loss that Iβve read in a long time. Filled with heartache, love, and things that would stir Mary Shelleyβs ghost, this is a story not to be missed.β (Lauren DeStefano, New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy )
βMandannaβs debut novel is lovely and at times heartbreaking .... A thoughtful study of both a girlβs search for her identity and the human reaction to death.β (Publishers Weekly )
About the Author
Sangu Mandanna was four years old when she was chased by an elephant and wrote her first story about it and decided that this was what she wanted to do with her life. Seventeen years later, she read Frankenstein. It sent her into a writing frenzy that became THE LOST GIRL, a novel about death and love and the tie that binds the two together. Sangu now lives in England with her husband and son. Find her online at sangumandanna.com