Product Description
Lost & Found
Author: Brooke Davis
Format: Paperback
'If you liked Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you'll like this' — Metro
'Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year's bestseller, The Rosie Project' — Sydney Morning Herald
Millie Bird is seven-years-old. On a shopping trip with her mum, Millie is left alone beneath the Ginormous Women's underwear rack in a department store. Her mum never returns.
Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and hasn't 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 Typist is eighty-seven and in a nursing home. He remembers how he once typed love letters with his fingers on to his wife's 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 Millie's mum. And along the way, they will discover that the young can be wise, that old age is not the same as death, and that breaking the rules once in a while might just be the key to a happy life.
About the Author
Brooke Davis grew up in Bellbrae in Victoria, Australia, and attempted to write her first novel when she was ten years old. It was a genre-busting foray into the inner workings of a young teenage girl’s mind – Anne of Green Gables meets The Baby-Sitters Club meets Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret – titled Summer Sadness. Fortunately it remains unfinished, as she quickly realized she didn’t know the first thing about sadness, or being a teenager. Once she left those teenage years behind, she completed her honours degree in writing at the University of Canberra, winning the Allen & Unwin Prize for Prose Fiction, the Verandah Prose Prize, and the University Medal. Brooke recently completed her PhD in creative writing at Curtin University in Western Australia and, while there, was awarded the 2009 Bobbie Cullen Memorial Award for Women Writers, the 2009 AAWP Prize for Best Postgraduate Conference Paper, and the 2011 Postgraduate Queensland Writing Prize. She loves to sell other people’s books, and is sometimes allowed to do that at two very nice bookshops: one in Perth and one in Torquay. Lost & Found is her first proper novel.
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