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The Collector of Lost Things is Jeremy Page’s first historical novel. It is a love story and a quest, whose protagonists are driven by obsession, love and ghosts, and it is an intensely compelling and lyrically written read.
The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is hired to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the Great Auk, which became extinct the previous year. He joins a hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic, embroidery-loving Captain Sykes, the unpredictable First Mate French, the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley and, most importantly of all, Bletchley's beautiful but strange cousin Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past that haunts him.
