What Was Lost

Name: What Was Lost
Author: Catherine O'Flynn
ISBN: 9781921215889

Catherine O'Flynn

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What Was Lost

Catherine O'Flynn

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#7838 of 8,085 books · #2501 in Crime & Thriller

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2007).

The 1980s. Kate Meaney – with her 'Top Secret' notebook and Mickey her toy monkey – is busy being a junior detective. She observes goings-on and follows 'suspects' at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping centre and in her street, where she is friends with the newsagent's son, Adrian. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian falls under suspicion. Then, in 2004, Adrian's sister Lisa – stuck in a going-nowhere relationship – is working as a deputy manager at Your Music, a cut-price record store. Every day she witnesses the bizarre behaviour of her customers and colleagues. But together with security guard Kurt, she becomes entranced by the little girl they keep glimpsing on the centre's CCTV. As their after-hours friendship intensifies, they investigate how these sightings might be connected to the unsettling history of Green Oaks itself.

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