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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.

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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 *

What Was Lost: Winner of the Costa First Novel

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      Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 21/10/2011
      ISBN13: 9781906994259, 978-1906994259
      ISBN10: 1906994250
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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 *

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