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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780805088335
ISBN: 0805088334
Label: Holt Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Sales Rank: 24258
Studio: Holt Paperbacks
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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.
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Rating:  - what was lost
this might be the worst book i have ever read. i am not sure, because i read a lot, but i might not be able to finish this
Rating:  - Good story, promising writer
Let me start by saying I enjoyed this book. It is the story of a young girl named Kate who lost her mother and then her father. She is 10 years old and fancies herself ... Read More
Rating: - Mildy Entertaining
I was anticipating a great experience when I picked up "What Was Lost" after reading all the reviews. Unfortunately for me, it was less than I had hoped for. It isn't ... Read More
Rating:  - Down at the Mall
Catherine O'Flynn does such a good job of delaying important information about characters and their situation that it is almost impossible to review her fine first novel, ... Read More
Rating: - I almost thought that this was a children's book!!
This book was something that I picked up on a newspaper recommendation. After the first chapter, I thought that I had mistakenly picked up a book from the children's section. ... Read More
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