What Was Lost

ISBN: 9780955138416
Author: Catherine O'flynn
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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. From the Publisher Longlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction About the Author Catherine O'Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents' sweet shop. She has been a teacher, web editor, mystery customer and postwoman - and her first novel draws on her experience of working in record stores. (As the Literary Review observes, `O'Flynn is just the colleague you'd want to be stuck with in a dead-end job.') After a few years in Barcelona, she now lives in Birmingham.

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