Lost Between Houses

David Gilmour’s fascinating book “Lost Between Houses” centers on fifteen-year-old Simon Albright, a student at a private school. A difficult year in Simon’s life is depicted in the novel as he tries to balance being the intelligent mother’s closest friend, the rebel her lover loves, and the son his father appreciates.

His father is in and out of a mental facility, his mother is preoccupied, and his girlfriend is too attractive, making this a difficult deed. The reader is captured by the book’s unfolding sarcasm, anguish, and amazement until its unexpected conclusion.