'He never expected to see anything on the CCTV. No one ever did on the night shift.' Catherine O'Flynn's heartbreaking first novel is a haunting story of Britain in the 21st century.
Wonderful new package of a prize-winning modern classic
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'He never expected to see anything on the CCTV. No one ever did on the night shift.' Catherine O'Flynn's heartbreaking first novel is a haunting story of Britain in the 21st century.
Wonderful new package of a prize-winning modern classic
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CHOSEN BY GAIL HONEYMAN ON BBC RADIO 4 A GOOD READ'Sad, funny and full of charm - a delight' Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDA lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years.Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder, and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre's endless corridors - welcome relief from the tedium of their lives.But as this after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.
Awards
Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2007
Critic Reviews
A superb, haunting novel from a new literary talent Daily Mail
An exceptional, polyphonic novel The Guardian
Contemporary literary prose at its finest Publishing News
Sad, funny and full of charm - a delight Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
About the Author
Catherine O'Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents' sweet shop as the youngest child of a large family. She has been a teacher, web editor, mystery customer and postwoman. Her first novel draws on her experience of working in record stores - and of growing up as a child intrigued by clues, suspects and methods of detection.
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