If you liked Rachel Joyce'sThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you'll like this Metro Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last years bestseller,The Rosie Project Sydney Morning Herald
Millie Birdis seven-years-old. On a shopping trip with her mum, Millie is left alone beneath the Ginormous Womens underwear rack in a department store. Her mum never returns.
Agatha Panthais eighty-two and hasnt left home since her husband died. Instead, she fills the silence by yelling at passers-by, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule. Until the day Agatha spies a little girl across the street.
Karl the Touch Typistis eighty-seven and in a nursing home. He remembers how he once typed love letters with his fingers on to his wifes skin. Now widowed, he knows that somehow he must find a way for life to begin again. In a moment of clarity, he escapes.
Together, Millie, Agatha and Karl set out to find Millies mum. And along the way, they will discover thatthe young can be wise, thatold age is not the same as death, and thatbreaking the rulesonce in a while might just be thekey to a happy life.
Brooke Davis grew up in Bellbrae, Australia, and now lives in Perth, where she works as a bookseller. She is a graduate of the University of Canberra and Curtin University.Lost&Foundis her first novel and has been published in over twenty-five countries. It was a number one bestseller in Australia and won Fiction Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards 2015.
THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: Lost & Found is this year's most heart-warming, moving and joyful debut novel.
It will be adored by fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Rosie Project.
