Lost & Found

Brooke Davis

Jun 2014 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

LOST & FOUND, the bestselling Australian fiction debut of 2014, now an international sensation, will have you laughing, crying and, by the end, feeling just a little wiser . . . A stunning first novel from one of Australia's most exciting young authors.

At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too.

Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. She sits behind her front window, hidden by the curtains and ivy, and shouts at passers-by, roaring her anger at complete strangers. Until the day Agatha spies a young girl across the street.

Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven when his son kisses him on the cheek before leaving him at the nursing home. As he watches his son leave, Karl has a moment of clarity. He escapes the home and takes off in search of something different.

Three lost people needing to be found. But they don't know it yet. Millie, Agatha and Karl are about to break the rules and discover what living is all about.

'Imagine THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY meets THE ROSIE PROJECT'
-MARIE CLAIRE

'heartbreaking and funny and brilliant'
-HERALD SUN

'a literary sensation'
-AUSTRALIAN ARTS REVIEW

Winner:
General Fiction Book Of The Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015
Matt Richell New Writer Of The Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015

Shortlisted:
Debut Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2015
Australian Booksellers Association Neilsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2015

Ratings and reviews

Oohh, I loved this book. Brooke writes about grief and it's impact on seven year old Millie and elderly Karl and Agatha. When they find each other, they break all the rules to live life to the full. Heartwarming.

This book was recommended to me on google play because I like nanny Piggins. Page 27 is very rude. Google shouldn't recommend this book to kids!

Excellent book, extremely interesting characters, definitely not a kids book but seemed like it might be from 1st chapter

About the author

Brooke Davis grew up in Bellbrae, Victoria, and attempted to write her first novel when she was ten years old. It was 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 realised she didn't know the first thing about sadness, or being a teenager. Lost & Found is her first proper novel, and she was lucky to write it as part of a PhD at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. She still lives there (in Perth, not at university), and is sometimes allowed to work at a very nice bookshop nearby. Much to Brooke's surprise, Lost & Found proved to be the buzz book of the 2014 London Book Fair. The translation rights have since been sold into twenty-five countries now and there has been major deals in the United States and Great Britain.