What Was Lost (Paperback, Holt Paperbacks)

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.

General

Imprint:	St. Martins Press-3pl
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2008
First published:	June 2008
Authors:	Catherine O'Flynn
Dimensions:	201 x 132 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
Edition:	Holt Paperbacks
ISBN-13:	978-0-8050-8833-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8050-8833-4
Barcode:	9780805088335

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