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 The 1980s: Ten-year-old Kate Meaney - with her 'Top Secret' notebook and Mickey her toy monkey - is busy being a junior detective. She observes goings-on and follows 'suspects' at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping centre and in her street, where she is friends with the newsagent's son, Adrian. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian falls under suspicion and is hounded out of his home by the press. Then, in 2004, Lisa is working as a deputy manager at Your Music, a cut-price record store. Every day, under the watchful eye of the CCTV, she tears her hair out at the behaviour of her customers and colleagues. But when she meets security guard Kurt, she becomes entranced by the little girl he keeps glimpsing on the centre's CCTV. As their after-hours friendship intensifies, they investigate how these sightings might be connected to the unsettling history of Green Oaks.
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. Her first novel draws on her experience of working in record stores - and of growing up as a child intrigued by clues, suspects and methods of detection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780955138416 |
| ISBN 10 | 0955138418 |
| Title | What Was Lost |
| Author | Catherine O'flynn |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-01-04 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of British Book Awards: Waterstones Newcomer of the Year Award 2008, Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2007, Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book - Eurasia 2008, Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2007 |
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