What Was Lost

What Was Lost
First edition cover
AuthorCatherine O'Flynn
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherTindal Street Press
Publication date
4 January 2007
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages240 pp
ISBN0-9551384-1-8
OCLC71542180

What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. What Was Lost won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was shortlisted for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award.[1]

  1. ^ Brown, Mark, 2008-01-03, Dogged postie wins first novel prize, Guardian.