Talking to Calippa Cumberland

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It’s half past four on Christmas Eve, 1976. Lori Bloom, aged three and three-quarters, is leaving a busy department store with her mother when the tannoy announces that a child in reception is lost and crying for her parents.The impact on Lori is immediate. ‘Calippa Cumberland’, the mysterious girl with blonde hair and a curious name, becomes her imaginary friend and a constant presence into adulthood. For as one Christmas follows another, Lori fi nds herself confronting painful questions and in need of a companion in whom she can confi de.But will there ever be someone Lori can completely trust? And will Christmas Eve ever be about ginding and being found, rather than losing and being lost?