What Was Lost

A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl--winner of the Costa First Novel...
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Author: Catherine O'Flynn
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Language: English
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What Was Lost by O'Flynn, Catherine

What Was Lost

¥4,014

What Was Lost

¥4,014
Author: Catherine O'Flynn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl--winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book Award

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.

Author: Catherine O'Flynn
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 06/24/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780805088335

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 129060 / What Was Lost


Award: Guardian First Book Award - Nominee
Award: Costa Book Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2008 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 03/17/2008 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2008 pg. 514
Library Journal 06/01/2008 pg. 93
School Library Journal 06/01/2008 pg. 172
Entertainment Weekly 06/20/2008 pg. 71
Romantic Times 07/01/2008 pg. 84 - Excellent
New York Times Book Review 07/13/2008 pg. 26
People Weekly 07/14/2008 pg. 47
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2008 pg. 62
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2008 pg. 45

About the Author

Catherine O'Flynn's is the author of The News Where You Are and What Was Lost, which won the Costa First Novel Award in 2007, was short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award, and was long-listed for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. She lives in Birmingham, England.




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