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What Was Lost by Catherine
O’Flynn A lost little girl with her notebook
and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping
centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for
20 years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted
deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre’s endless
corridors – welcome relief from the behaviour of customers, colleagues
and the Green Oaks mystery shopper. They set off on an increasingly disturbing
quest to discover the fate of little Kate Meaney. ‘Part ghost story and part mystery ... an enthralling tale of a little girl lost, wrapped in a portrait of a changing community over two decades. What binds it all together so impressively is O’Flynn’s emotional articulacy, which captures life’s sad, strange absurdities and glosses them with a kind of nobility’ Observer ‘A very special novel indeed’ Bookseller 'O'Flynn deftly combines humour, love, loss and grief. Contemporary literary prose at its finest, surely has book prize potential' Publishing News About the Author |
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