Praise for The Lost Wife

“Richman, once again finds inspiration in art, adding evocative details to a swiftly moving plot. Her descent into the horrors of the Holocaust, lends enormous power to Lenka’s experience and makes her reunion with Josef all the more poignant.”
— Publishers Weekly

“Tragedy and hope, love and loss, and the strength to endure are examined through Richman’s graceful writing and powerful characters.”
— Booklist

“Staggeringly evocative, romantic, heart-rending, sensual and beautifully written, Alyson Richman’s The Lost Wife may well be the Sophie’s Choice of this generation.”
— New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart

“Daringly constructed, this moving novel begins at the end and then, a fully-realized circle through the most traumatic event of the 20th century, returns you there in a way that makes your heart leap. Richman writes with the clarity and softness of freshly-fallen snow.”
— Emmy winning playwright Loring Mandel

“Begins with a chilling revelation and had me hooked throughout. A love story wrapped in tragedy and survival, I read The Lost Wife in one sitting. Tense, emotional and fulfilling: a great achievement by Alyson Richman.”
— Martin Fletcher, Special Correspondent NBC News,
Winner of the Jewish National Book Award.

“The Lost Wife is a luminous, heartbreaking novel. I was barely able to put it down and can’t stop thinking about it. Not only is the writing exquisite but I have seldom seen such skill in sweeping a reader back and forth over sixty years until the journey of Josef and Lenka, both such brave and beautiful people, becomes one glorious
circle of the triumph of love over evil.”
— Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude & Camille and Marrying Mozart