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'What Was Lost' Has Found What Recent Novels Have Been Missing... 'What Was Lost' is Catherine O'Flynn's debut award-winning novel, which tells the story of Kate Meaney who mysteriously goes missing in 1984 and the resonance this has when, some twenty years later, she reappears on a CCTV camera in Green Oaks Shopping Centre. The novel considers the butterfly effect of Kate's disappearance on the lives of Kurt, a security guard, and Lisa, a shop manager, who in 2004 find themselves trapped in unfulfilling roles at Green Oaks. This is the stage where the story's drama... more info
Good first novel but nowhere as good as the hype 'Crime was out there. Undetected, unseen. She hoped she wouldn't be too late'. The story revolves around a little girl who is orphaned and carries on (obsessively) playing detective. The writing in this first part of the book is very engaging and although I found the child's life somewhat unconvincing I was very happy to suspend disbelief and enjoy. The narrative then moves on twenty years and we take up with minor characters from the first story years later in the shopping centre where she... more info
read it in a day LOved IT, loved the narration - loved the jokes ( had to stop myself laughing as i was reading it at work)
loved the Quinton and steri refs presume was based on MErry Hill
well done Catherine!
OK I picked this up in my local Tesco the other day, thought it looked intriguing but although it was nicely written it failed to excite me. I thought the early part about Kate and her detective agency was quite funny, and perceptive, the eyes of a child were well depicted, but when it moved into the present day I lost interest really. Skipped some of it to get to the end to find out what actually happened to Kate and Adrian, average book.
