The End of Getting Lost: A Novel

Written by Robin Kirman

Narrated by Alex Allwine and Michael David Axtell

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Feb 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781797136677

Robin Kirman

Robin Kirman studied philosophy at Yale before receiving her MFA in writing from Columbia, where she also taught for several years. Her curiosity about human psychology has led her to combine work in psychoanalysis with writing fiction. Her first novel, Bradstreet Gate, was published in 2015, and her television series The Love Wave is currently in development.

Reviews for The End of Getting Lost

[tom carter · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Magnificent work. It kept me spellbound in its simple, driving, unobtrusive way like a base note that one rarely notices thrumming in the background of a beautiful Sonata, waiting to break out in a moment truth, that in the end, unwinds itself in the way that you prayed it would but just knew tragically you would not. I normally don’t stay up all night reading or listening to a book, had planned to, but then I couldn’t go on any longer because the suspense was too much, and I feared that what I wanted to happen would not, the narrative looked opposingly in the direction that my heart desired, so I waited until morning, grabbed a cuppa coffee knowing in the end it would just leave my day saddened. I feared Duncan, whom I came to love and appreciated, would lose Gina forever, his love not surviving his perfidy, but never did I guess the real truth. So not to be a spoiler, I’ll leave it at that, only to say it’s one of the top five greatest endings I’ve experienced in taking in a literary work. The narrator did a great job in rendering all the mystery and slights-of-hand that gives encores to those difficulties of y modulation. The formatting - in the alteration of dual perspectives - was a stroke of genius and handled expertly… but most of all the way, the plot was intertwine in those time shifts, via the well structured flashbacks that helped contextualize the present day narrative in meaningfully connected and suspenseful way, a technical adroitness that might be difficult to appreciate, and even more so since, again, so seamlessly effected. Most of the ending completely dissolved all the tension in a passionate display of intellectual and everyday understanding of life… so great is it the improbable brought to probability and relieving delight will be difficult to forget. …. Gina and Duncan easily memorable , theirs a love story while being a romance, a thriller, while being a mystery slightly detective, a work of literary weight, with an artistic flare and aesthetic content to round out a drama of family and friends’ complexity and intrigue that bounds our life to joy and difficulties. …it’s a literary success done passionately and simply that, after all the heat of conflict unwinds in love, learning, and hope. What else could you ask for?

[amelie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was so not what I had expected. What a domestic thriller!!