description: Coming to New York from Tasmania at the age of eighteen, Rosemary takes a job at a used and rare bookstore run by the gruff Mr. Pike and his idiosyncratic staff and becomes caught up in the search for a long-lost Melville manuscript.
language: English
title: The Secret of Lost Things
titlecomplete: The Secret of Lost Things
characters: Arthur Pick, Lillian La Paco, Bruno Gurvich, Pearl Baird, Walter Geist, Jack Conway, Robert Mitchell, Oscar Jarno, Esther Chapman, George Pike, Rosemary Savage, Julian Peabody
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, New York, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Australia, Adult Fiction, Books About Books
ratings_count: 4057
publisher: Blackstone Pub