What Was Lost

ISBN-13: 9780805088335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str.

Catherine O'Flynn

Opis

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 AwardIn 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.

O autorze

Catherine O'Flynn, geboren 1970 in Birmingham, gewann mit ihrem Debütroman Was mit Kate geschah (Atrium Verlag, 2009), der in mehr als zehn Sprachen übersetzt wurde, auf Anhieb zahlreiche wichtige Literaturpreise. Auch in Deutschland eroberte sie sich schnell ein großes Lesepublikum und wurde von der Presse gefeiert: "Spannend und mit feinem Humor", urteilte die FAZ. Catherine O'Flynn lebt in Birmingham.