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Who Was Lost and Is Found: A Novel

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
228 pages
ISBN
9781836103325
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • motherhood
  • family separation
  • rural life
  • hope and longing
  • emotional resilience
  • Victorian society
  • maternal devotion
  • reconciliation
  • identity and loss
  • village community

Description

Who Was Lost and Is Found: A Novel by Margaret Oliphant follows Mrs. James Ogilvy, a devoted mother in the quiet village of Eskholm, whose life is shadowed by the long absence of her son, Robert. As she waits with hope and reflects on family, duty, and loss, the novel explores maternal devotion, the rhythms of rural life, and the emotional journey toward reunion, reconciliation, and the surprises that accompany restored bonds.

Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as if the rent depended on it — because it often did. Widowed young, she supported a large household with novels, biographies, reviews, and stories of the seen and unseen, becoming one of the Victorian age's most tireless professionals. Domestic realism, historical fiction, and ghostly tales all came from the same steady pen.