TY - BOOK AU - Hunter,Aislinn TI - The world before us: a novel SN - 9780553418521 AV - PR9199.4.H86 W67 2014 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2014///] CY - London, New York PB - Hogarth KW - Missing persons KW - Fiction KW - fast KW - England KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction N2 - "Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare. She was babysitting a sweet young girl named Lily, and in one fleeting moment, lost her. The little girl was never found, leaving her family and Jane devastated. Twenty years later, Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As a final research project--an endeavor inspired in part by her painful past--Jane surveys the archives for information related to another missing person: a woman who disappeared over one hundred years ago in the same woods where Lily was lost."--Publisher ER -