book cover of What Was Lost
Added by 5 members
 

What Was Lost

(2007)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Costa Book Awards Best First Novel
It is the 1980s, and Kate Meaney is a serious-minded and curious young girl - who spends her time with her toy monkey acting out the role of a junior detective. She notes goings-on at the Green Oaks shopping centre and in her street, particularly the newsagent's where she is friends with the owner's son Adrian. When she disappears, Adrian falls under suspicion and is hounded by the press. It's 2004 and thirty-something Lisa is at work in a cut-price record store, tearing her hair out at customers' bizarre requests and the even more bizarre behaviour of her colleagues. While at home, the futility of her relationship is slowly becoming apparent. Over shared fishpaste sandwiches, she strikes up a friendship with security guard Kurt - and, following CCTV glimpses of Kate, they become entranced by the lost little girl and her connections with the strange history of Green Oaks itself.


Genre: Mystery

Visitors also looked at these books


Used availability for Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors