From the Bookshelf of Aussie Readers…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
I read this book when it first came out in 2014. At the time I was writing a very rough draft of what would become my first novel. Millie Bird, one of the main character's in Lost and Found is only seven and I was intrigued. One of the characters in my own work was a young girl and I was being told that a young character should not be a main character in adult fiction. That it wouldn't work. People would be bored with a younger voice or just simply that my genre called for older main characters.
...more
This book touches on some heavy issues such as grief, abandonment, and growing old. This book is unique in that it has a very young and two very old protagonists. There are plenty of humorous moments throughout Lost & Found that you fall in love with all three of the point of view characters -- even Agatha who admits she's not very nice. I actually found myself laughing out loud at a few of the events that occurred, especially those surrounding Karl. My husband kept asking me what was so funny.
T ...more
T ...more
I really enjoyed this. Great characters in some totally unexpected moments and outcomes ... and the dialogue is entertaining and at times thought-producing.
When a quiet elderly man, escaping from a nursing home; a very loud elderly woman, a recluse since the death of her husband; and a little girl, all alone; set out to find someone, they break all the rules and find themselves instead.
Read it to: grieve, to feel hopeful, to feel a sense of shared loss and shared happiness.
Full review: http://leatherboundpounds.com/2015/06... ...more
Full review: http://leatherboundpounds.com/2015/06... ...more
A quirky, sad, amusing, and silly story about 3 lost souls finding each other. Millie Bird is seven years old and she has a Book of Dead Things where she records all the dead things she comes across, starting with her dog, but she never expected her Dad to be a dead thing as well. Her Mum leaves her in the women’s underwear department and tells her to wait, but she does not come back. She meets Karl the touch typist, who is 87 years old and has also been hiding out in the store after he escaped
...more
Jul 06, 2014
Chris
marked it as to-read
Aug 25, 2014
Cheryl Davis
marked it as to-read
Oct 07, 2014
Teresa
marked it as to-read
Dec 28, 2014
Pam
marked it as to-read
May 31, 2015
Eloise
marked it as to-read
Aug 05, 2019
Claire
marked it as to-read
Mar 07, 2020
Tanya
added it
