Lost in France

About the Book

Stephen Robb was once a successful Australian film director working in Hollywood. Then he tired of the game, apparently abandoning his career to become a winemaker in a remote corner of South-West France.

Nathalie, his 24 year-old daughter, is trying to establish herself as an actress in London. When she finds herself unable to contact her father for many weeks, her anxieties about his wellbeing become overwhelming. She walks out of the play she is rehearsing and flies to France.

When she finds her father's farmhouse eerily deserted and discovers evidence of an unexplained personal catastrophe, she has no choice but to summon the help of her estranged mother and brother.

As they investigate every aspect of Stephen Robb's bizarre life in France and the sinister mystery surrounding his disappearance, they find themselves forced to confront long-buried, threatening truths about their fractured family.

Lost in France is a novel of gathering suspense, which, through the lives of a rich cast of characters, compassionately and subtly explores the dangerous price of artistic ambition and the limits of a daughter's love for a problematic father.

About the Author

Born in Tenterfield, Australia, Ken Cameron has worked as a director of film and television in Australia and the USA. He is the author of the novel The Provenance of Madame Rey, and the director of the feature films Monkey Grip and The Good Wife.

His television credits include the mini-series Bangkok Hilton, Brides of Christ, The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, and My Brother Jack.

He has won both Australian Film Institute and Australian Writers' Guild awards for his work. He lives in Sydney and also spends time in a village in Quercy, South-West France.