What Was Lost : Winner of the Costa First Novel Award

Author: O'Flynn, Catherine

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Published on 1 May 2011 by Profile Books Ltd (Tindal Street Press).

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 FineLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDA 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.