Combatting dystopia

April 28, 2021, 9:49 a.m. A review for 'The song of the lost boy' , from W.E, Field

In her fourth book, The Song of the Lost Boy¸ Winchester Quaker Maggie Allder continues to explore the themes of her first three books* - the conflict between a spirituality such as that of Quakers, and the repression of a neo-fascist state intolerant of liberals and the poor. Her previous stories have chronicled the experiences of people who have moved from being comfortable insiders to endangered subversives. In Lost Boy, the child Georgio lives outside society and, while remaining physically estranged, seeks a different sense of belonging based in some fragments of existence given to him by his lost parents. …