My budget doesn’t extend to actually buying too many books these days – especially at Australian prices – but you might remember I was excited to receive my copy of Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost last month. I’ve been keen to read this book (which won the Costa First Novel Award in 2007 and was longlisted for the Booker) since hearing Catherine O’Flynn speak a couple of times at the Perth Writers Festival.
What Was Lost tells a tale tangled by characters and time, but it focuses on the one setting: …