Nick Hern Books Lost Atoms

'Love's strange, isn't it? You think you're going to feel it in your chest, or your gut.But I swear, I can feel it in every cell.'Jess and Robbie.A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love.It's the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it?Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbie's recollection of it.Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss.But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted? By turns hilarious and devastating, Anna Jordan's Lost Atoms tells a timeless story which explores how love shapes our lives and how we remember it.It was commissioned and produced by Frantic Assembly in 2025, as their thirtieth-anniversary production, in a co-production with Curve, Mayflower Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, and directed by Frantic Assembly's Artistic Director Scott Graham.