![]() ![]() ![]() Yvonne will not see her son for another forty years. But Michael appears, takes their son from her arms, snarls a warning to her and leaves. ![]() Thirty-six years later he arrived at her front door.Boy, Lost tells an unforgettable story of the legacy of grief and loss across generations, and is a tribute to the power of memory and faith. In 1950 after enduring three years of marriage to him, the pregnant Yvonne takes her infant son and flees on the train. In his late 30s, he has the smile of a boy. But I have no words for this: the instant recognition as the girl comes up the stairs. Yvonne dreamt day and night of her son, while Peter grew up a thousand miles and a lifetime away, dreaming of his missing mother. The shapes of two lost boys amongst us: as we grew, we learnt a language for it. She did not think she would see her son again.Kristina was the first child of her mother's second, much gentler marriage and, like her siblings, grew up unaware of the reasons behind her mother's sorrow, though Peter's absence resounded through the family. ![]() Young and frightened and trying to escape a brutal marriage, she was not prepared for this final blow, this breathtaking punishment. An unforgettable story of the legacy of grief and guilt across generations, and the power of memory and faith.Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded a train in the hot summer of 1950. ![]()
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