Madeline Cash
Lost Lambs: The best book you’ll read all year
Bringing head and heart together with its own crazy glue, Lost Lambs follows the spectacular falling apart - and eventual coming together - of the Flynn family.
The funny and compassionate new literary novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form.
'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and creator of comedy-drama Girls
'Loud, hilarious, shocking and sensitive' Megan Nolan, prize-listed author of Acts of Desperation
'You finish the book with the kind of smile on your face that contemporary fiction rarely leaves you with. Lost Lambs is a perky, fiendishly readable debut.' Financial Times
For the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone - or something - is monitoring the town's citizens.
Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy - one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.
Rippling with humour, warmth and style, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an art form.
Praise for Lost Lambs-
'Goes off like a firework. As sincere as it is funny (and it's very funny)' Ramona Ausubel,bestselling author of The Last Animal
'A great, great American novel' Samantha Hunt, Women's Prize longlisted author of The Seas
'A dazzling and singular new voice in literary fiction... Loud, hilarious, shocking, and sensitive' Megan Nolan, award-winning author of Ordinary Human Failings
'With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family' Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection - National Book Award Finalist
'Madeline Cash is a humourist in the darkly humanist tradition of George Saunders and Lorrie Moore, of Vonnegut and Twain' Tim Kreider, author of We Learn Nothing
'Immersive and propulsive and I never wanted it to end. I can't remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters... I loved it. I devoured it' Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters
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Binding Type: Hardcover
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Publisher: Doubleday Uk