Brooke Davis

Uproarious and affecting… eccentric and sympathetic… Lost &amp; Found could be ginormous

Offbeat and funny… painfully, tenderly observant... [as] three lonely grief-stricken misfits find one another

Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project.

Both hilarious and devastating. This is a story of loss and hope with one of the most vivid casts of characters I’ve come across. In particular, it is red wellied, seven-year-old Millie our heart weeps and soars for. A great read with ballsy, brilliant writing. A joy.

Here is a mercurial talent... completely authentic and real... Seven-year-old Millie doesn't just tug at the heart strings, she rips them right out... A rich and distinctive debut

Thought-provoking and eloquent. Millie, especially, is a divinely brilliant little thing… A very special book that will stay in your heart long after reading.

An unexpectedly uplifting book about death, grief and growing old… Lost &amp; Found is an off-kilter glimpse of Australia that builds to a life-affirming climax.

Whimsy and wisdom... If you liked Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you'll like this

A Wizard of Oz-esque journey... there's a lot of warmth, wisdom and humour here.

Heartbreaking and funny and brilliant

A novel that dances on the wire between heartache and joy

A fabulous, funny, quirky story that readers will love

[An] eccentric road-trip debut… There is no doubting Davis’s talent for characterisation or her gifts of description

An exuberant and cheering tale that will stay with you long after the last page.

Extraordinary, moving and laced with Amelie-style wonderment

Everything about the characters and the writing feels exactly right

Brilliantly written... This is a special, unique story; a novel to cheer you up, make you laugh and even make you tear up at the end. Already a bestseller abroad, Lost and Found deserves to fly off the shelves in the UK too.

Seven-year-old Millie is perhaps 2015’s finest comic creation. Funny, sassy and prematurely wise … Bewitching

‘If you liked Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you'll like this’ Metro 
 
‘Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project’ Sydney Morning Herald 
 
Millie Bird is seven-years-old. On a shopping trip with her mum, Millie is left alone beneath the Ginormous Women’s underwear rack in a department store. Her mum never returns. 
 
Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and hasn’t left home since her husband died. Instead, she fills the silence by yelling at passers-by, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule. Until the day Agatha spies a little girl across the street. 
 
Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven and in a nursing home. He remembers how he once typed love letters with his fingers on to his wife’s skin. Now widowed, he knows that somehow he must find a way for life to begin again. In a moment of clarity, he escapes. 
 
Together, Millie, Agatha and Karl set out to find Millie’s mum. And along the way, they will discover that the young can be wise, that old age is not the same as death, and that breaking the rules once in a while might just be the key to a happy life.

Brooke Davis

Praise for Lost & Found

Uproarious and affecting… eccentric and sympathetic… Lost & Found could be ginormous

Offbeat and funny… painfully, tenderly observant... [as] three lonely grief-stricken misfits find one another

**Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project.**

Uproarious and affecting… eccentric and sympathetic… Lost & Found could be ginormous

Offbeat and funny… painfully, tenderly observant... [as] three lonely grief-stricken misfits find one another

**Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project.**

Uproarious and affecting… eccentric and sympathetic… Lost & Found could be ginormous

Offbeat and funny… painfully, tenderly observant... [as] three lonely grief-stricken misfits find one another

**Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project.**

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