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The saint of lost things

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I had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me have fresh cream cakes every Saturday. They’re sweet enough to take the edge off. I hope they’re enough to get me through being outed as a fraud. Turns out, I’m more my missing mother’s daughter than anyone first suspected. There was a time when Lindy Morris escaped to London and walked along the Thames in the moonlight. When life was full and exciting. Decades later, Lindy lives back with her Auntie Bell on the edge – on the edge of Donegal and on the edge of Granda Morris’s land. Granda Morris is a complicated man, a farmer who wanted sons but got two daughters – Auntie Bell and Lindy’s mother, who disappeared long ago. Now, Lindy and Bell live the smallest of lives, in a cottage filled with unfulfilled dreams. But when the secrets they have kept for thirty years emerge, everything is rewritten.

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE AUTHORS’ CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2022

‘Reading The Saint of Lost Things was one of those perfect reading experiences that come along very occasionally; it’s moving, funny, tragic, triumphant, totally gripping, a pure gift of a novel’ DONAL RYAN
‘Superb’ FINANCIAL TIMES
‘You’ll be moved, you might laugh and there may well be redemption’ EVENING STANDARD
‘Thoroughly absorbing’
GUARDIAN

Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda Morris, with only her Auntie Bell and the TV for company.

But one day Lindy realises that life is not quite what she thought it was: her mother’s disappearance and her own lost years need to be brought out into the light. Suddenly Lindy is awake, uncovering the very secrets that will release her from her past.

Told with devastating wit and poignancy, THE SAINT OF LOST THINGS is the triumphant story of an unlikely heroine as she makes her bid for freedom.

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Weight 0.309 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.7 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

442

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K