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What Was Lost
Catherine O´flynn
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Description for What Was Lost
Paperback. Wonderful new package of a prize-winning modern classic Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. 256 pages. Wonderful new package of a prize-winning modern classic. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 146 x 199 x 17. Weight: 212.
The 1980s: Ten-year-old Kate Meaney - with her 'Top Secret' notebook and Mickey her toy monkey - is busy being a junior detective. She observes goings-on and follows 'suspects' at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping centre and in her street, where she is friends with the newsagent's son, Adrian. 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 2004, Lisa is working as a deputy manager at Your Music, a cut-price record store. Every day, under the watchful eye of the ... Read more
The 1980s: Ten-year-old Kate Meaney - with her 'Top Secret' notebook and Mickey her toy monkey - is busy being a junior detective. She observes goings-on and follows 'suspects' at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping centre and in her street, where she is friends with the newsagent's son, Adrian. 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 2004, Lisa is working as a deputy manager at Your Music, a cut-price record store. Every day, under the watchful eye of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906994259
SKU
V9781906994259
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About Catherine O´flynn
Catherine O'Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents' sweet shop as the youngest child of a large family. She has been a teacher, web editor, mystery customer and postwoman. Her first novel draws on her experience of working in record stores - and of growing up as a child intrigued by ... Read more
Reviews for What Was Lost
A terrific, wonderful book . . . I loved every page of it
Douglas Coupland
A great debut novel from an awesomely talented author
Jonathan Coe
An exceptional, polyphonic novel of urban disaffection, written with humour and pathos
Guardian
It's wonderful . . . A beguiling novel about disconnection, loss and the anonymity of ... Read more
Douglas Coupland
A great debut novel from an awesomely talented author
Jonathan Coe
An exceptional, polyphonic novel of urban disaffection, written with humour and pathos
Guardian
It's wonderful . . . A beguiling novel about disconnection, loss and the anonymity of ... Read more