Underappreciated until now, The Lost Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrences most
beautiful, thoroughly contemporary love story. This captivating novel charts the journey of
a woman caught between two worlds and two livesone mired in dreary, industrial England
and a life of convention, the other set in the vibrant Italian landscape holding the promise of
sensual liberation. Alvina Houghton is fading into spinsterhood when she meets Naples-born
Cicio, a vaudeville dancer who draws her into a dance of seduction, reawakening her desire
as she defies her stifling upper class life. Amazon.com

Johanna Ward (also known as Kate Reading) is an award-winning narrator and actor. She is a company member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre and has appeared on many other stages. She and her husband, actor-narrator Michael Kramer (Nick Bernard), live with their two children in the Washington, D.C. area.