CHOSEN BY GAIL HONEYMAN ON BBC RADIO 4 A GOOD READ 'Sad, funny and full of charm - a delight' Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder, and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre's endless corridors - welcome relief from the tedium of their lives. But as this after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.

'He never expected to see anything on the CCTV. No one ever did on the night shift.' Catherine O'Flynn's heartbreaking first novel is a haunting story of Britain in the 21st century.

About the Author
Catherine O'Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents' sweet shop as the youngest child of a large family. She has been a teacher, web editor, mystery customer and postwoman. What Was Lost won the Costa First Novel Award 2007 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Orange and Man Booker prizes. She is the author of two further novels - The News From Where You Are and Mr Lynch's Holiday.

Reviews
A superb, haunting novel from a new literary talent * Daily Mail *
An exceptional, polyphonic novel * The Guardian *
Contemporary literary prose at its finest * Publishing News *
Sad, funny and full of charm - a delight * Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine *


Awards
Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2007.



Book Information
ISBN 9781906994259
Author Catherine O'Flynn
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Tindal Street Press
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 183g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 18mm