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What Was Lost

What Was Lost

O'Flynn, Catherine

Paperback

HorrorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0805088334
ISBN13: 9780805088335
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Jun 24 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: Costa Book Awards, Guardian First Book Award

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book Award

A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl.

In the 1980s, Kate Meaney--Top Secret notebook and toy monkey in tow--is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing suspects and carefully observing everything around her at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping mall, she forms an unlikely friendship with Adrian, the son of a local shopkeeper. 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 2003, Adrian's sister Lisa--stuck in a dead-end relationship--is working as a manager at Your Music, a discount record store. Every day she tears her hair out at the outrageous behavior of her customers and colleagues. But along with a security guard, Kurt, she becomes entranced by the little girl glimpsed on the mall's surveillance cameras. As their after-hours friendship intensifies, Lisa and Kurt investigate how these sightings might be connected to the unsettling history of Green Oaks itself. Written with warmth and wit, What Was Lost is a haunting debut from an incredible new talent.

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