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What Was Lost (Paperback)
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- Publisher: Tindal Street Press
- Published: 01 September 2008
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780955647642 ISBN 10: 0955647649
- Sales rank: 39,699
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Great debut
This is the debut novel by Catherine O'Flynn and I noticed today that she has another book out which I am eager to read after getting through this one in a matter of 3 days. I'd not heard of the book or author, so it has been a successful chance encounter.
The story is split between two periods of time. The first part of the book introduces us to Kate Meany, a ten year old girl in 1984 who wants to be a detective and takes to watching people in the newly built shopping centre near her house, making up stories as to what crimes they may have committed and how she will find the evidence to bring them to justice. But one day Kate disappears and is never seen again.
Jumping forward to 2003 we meet a woman who works in a record store in the shopping centre, who's brother was a suspect in Kate's disappearance all those years ago, and also a security guard who believes he has seen a little girl on the security cameras in the shopping centre in the middle of the night. When the two meet, memories and secrets from the 1980′s come to the surface and are revealed to bring the story to a conclusion.
The book kept me wondering right to the end, and certainly drew me in quickly and kept my interest. I would give it 4.5 stars if that was possible. by Donna Clerkin
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