01571cam a2200337 i 4500 353309802 TxAuBib 20180730120000.0 140913t20152014||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014024331 9780553418521 Hardback $26.00 0553418521 Hardback $26.00 (OCoLC)890802420 TxAuBib rda Hunter, Aislinn. The world before us : a novel / Aislinn Hunter. First United States edition. New York : Hogarth, [2015] ©2014. 354 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 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 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. As Jane pieces moments in history together, a portrait of a fascinating group of people starts to unfurl. 20180730. Missing persons Fiction. England Fiction. Mystery Fiction. Domestic fiction. TXCLY