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- Title
- Lost & Found
- Author
- Davis, Brooke
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0525954686
- ISBN 13
- 9780525954682
Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millies father, leaves her in the big ladies underwear department of a local store and never returns.
Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her houseor spoken to another human beingsince she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule.
Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wifes skin. Now that shes gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karls been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now hes on the lam.
Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millies mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was.
Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
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About the Author
Brooke Davis grew up in Bellbrae, Australia, has lived in Halifax, Canada, and Florida, U.S.A., and now lives in Perth, where she works as a bookseller. She is a graduate of the University of Canberra and Curtin University, and has won numerous awards for her writing. Lost & Found is her first novel and will be published in over twenty-five countries.
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