The End of Getting Lost

A Novel

By: Robin Kirman

Narrated by: Alex Allwine, Michael David Axtell

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's Summary

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Margaret Qualley and Paul Mescal!

A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage—a year that the woman has no memory of—in this “wildly beautiful and darkly sinister” (Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister) novel of intimacy and deceit.

The year is 1996—a time before cell phones, status updates, and location tags—when you could still travel to a remote corner of the world and disappear. This is where we meet Gina and Duncan, a young couple madly in love, traveling around Europe on a romantic adventure. It’s a time both thrilling and dizzying for Gina, whose memories are hazy following a head injury—and the growing sense that the man at her side is keeping secrets from her. 

Just what is Duncan hiding and how far will he go to keep their pasts at bay? As the pair hop borders across Europe, their former lives threatening to catch up with them while the truth grows more elusive, we witness how love can lead us astray, and what it means to lose oneself in love.

The End of Getting Lost is a tightrope act of deception and an elegant exploration of love and marriage—as well as our cherished illisions of both. With notes of Patricia Highsmith, Caroline Kepnes, and Lauren Groff, Robin Kirman has spun an “atmospheric, lyrical” (Susie Yang, New York Times bestselling author of White Ivy) tale of deceit, redemption, and the fight to keep love alive—no matter the costs.

©2022 Robin Kirman. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Dark, smart, romantic thriller

Loved this edgy, literary page-turner.  It was cunning, suspenseful and dark -- and tender as well in its depiction of Gina and Duncan's love. It kept me guessing, my loyalties shifting throughout the novel between its complex co-protagonists. It left me with questions about love, deception, and morality. A rare thing: a page-turner that respected my intelligence.

The reading was fine, but I didn't always like how the female narrator handled Duncan's voice. Other than that, I thought the audio performances, while not excellent, were more than suitable.

Most boring story line I ever read!

This book is trite, character development is nonexistent, there is no theme, no symbolism nothing. I kept thinking it would get better but it didn’t. How any publisher agreed to publish this book is beyond me. Don’t waste your time or credit!!!