num_pages: 242
description: The 1980s: Ten-year-old Kate Meaney - with her 'Top Secret' notebook and Mickey her toy monkey - is busy being a junior detective. She observes goings-on and follows 'suspects' at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping centre and in her street, where she is friends with the newsagent's son, Adrian. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian falls under suspicion and is hounded out of his home by the press. Then, in 2004, Lisa is working as a deputy manager at Your Music, a cut-price record store. Every day, under the watchful eye of the CCTV, she tears her hair out at the behaviour of her customers and colleagues. But when she meets security guard Kurt, she becomes entranced by the little girl he keeps glimpsing on the centre's CCTV. As their after-hours friendship intensifies, they investigate how these sightings might be connected to the unsettling history of Green Oaks.
language: English
title: What Was Lost
titlecomplete: What Was Lost
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Young Adult, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Crime
ratings_count: 5806
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Tindal st Pr Ltd