What Was Lost by Catherine O'flynn

What Was Lost by Catherine O'flynn

CHOSEN BY GAIL HONEYMAN ON BBC RADIO 4 A GOOD READ 'Sad, funny and full of charm - a delight' Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder, and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre's endless corridors - welcome relief from the tedium of their lives. But as this after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.

A superb, haunting novel from a new literary talent * Daily Mail *
An exceptional, polyphonic novel * The Guardian *
Contemporary literary prose at its finest * Publishing News *
Sad, funny and full of charm - a delight * Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine *

Catherine O'Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents' sweet shop as the youngest child of a large family. She has been a teacher, web editor, mystery customer and postwoman. What Was Lost won the Costa First Novel Award 2007 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Orange and Man Booker prizes. She is the author of two further novels - The News From Where You Are and Mr Lynch's Holiday.

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ISBN 13	9781906994259
ISBN 10	1906994250
Title	What Was Lost
Author	Catherine O'flynn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2011-10-21
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2007
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