About the book

LOST & FOUND, the bestselling Australian fiction debut of 2014, now an international sensation, will have you laughing, crying and, by the end, feeling just a little wiser . . . A stunning first novel from one of Australia's most exciting young authors. At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too. Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. She sits behind her front window, hidden by the curtains and ivy, and shouts at passers-by, roaring her anger at complete strangers. Until the day Agatha spies a young girl across the street. Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven when his son kisses him on the cheek before leaving him at the nursing home. As he watches his son leave, Karl has a moment of clarity. He escapes the home and takes off in search of something different. Three lost people needing to be found. But they don't know it yet. Millie, Agatha and Karl are about to break the rules and discover what living is all about. 'Imagine THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY meets THE ROSIE PROJECT' -MARIE CLAIRE 'heartbreaking and funny and brilliant' -HERALD SUN 'a literary sensation' -AUSTRALIAN ARTS REVIEW Winner: General Fiction Book Of The Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015 Matt Richell New Writer Of The Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015 Shortlisted: Debut Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2015 Australian Booksellers Association Neilsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2015