by Catherine O'Flynn · Columna · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466410717
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«El que vam perdre» is the suspense novel by Catherine O'Flynn, published by Columna in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
Kate Meaney, an eight-year-old girl who amuses herself playing detective in a newly opened shopping centre, disappears. Twenty years later, a security guard thinks he sees on the cameras the image of a girl with a teddy bear. The novel turns the shopping centre into a microcosm to talk about friendship, childhood and happiness.
Originally published as «What Was Lost», it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Costa Book Award for First Novel in 2007. It belongs to the Col·lecció Clàssica collection (no. 789).
For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate mystery with a social and literary backdrop.
Catherine O'Flynn is a British writer. She has published three novels for adults, and two for children as well as various articles and short stories. Her debut novel, What Was Lost, which won a number of book prizes including the prestigious first novel prize at the Costa Book Awards in 2008. The same year, she was also named Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards. She went on to release the novel The News Where You Are in 2010 and Mr. Lynch's Holiday in 2013.
