by Catherine O'Flynn · Tindal Street · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780955138416
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«What Was Lost» is the literary fiction and mystery novel by Catherine O'Flynn, published by Tindal Street in paperback (242 pages, in English).
In the eighties, ten-year-old Kate watches the suspects at Birmingham's Green Oaks shopping centre with her notebook and toy monkey. When she disappears, her friend Adrian is left implicated. Twenty years later, Lisa, a record shop employee, and Kurt, a security guard who thinks he sees the girl on the cameras, investigate the centre's past.
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award in 2007, it was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award.
Recommended for reading groups and for readers of mystery and contemporary British literary fiction.
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.
