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by Catherine O'Flynn (Author)

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book Award

A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl.

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.

Author Biography

Catherine O'Flynn's is the author of The News Where You Are and What Was Lost, which won the Costa First Novel Award in 2007, was short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award, and was long-listed for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. She lives in Birmingham, England.

Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Award: Guardian First Book Award (2007)
Award: Costa Book Awards (2007)
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Quiz Name: What Was Lost
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 11

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