What
was Lost,
by Catherine
O'Flynn
The Way Through Doors, by Jesse Ball
“A realist novel asks the reader to connect and maintains that there are ideas and people worth connecting to. What Was Lost is a good one. But throw away the jacket and beware of spoilers.”
–TheLos Angeles Times
“O’Flynn’s stunning, hugely original first novel was on this year’s Man Booker longlist, and it’s easy to see why—the loneliness of the characters is heartrending and the shopping centre is a character in its own right; a symbol of the age.”
—The London Times
“As long as you don't insist on a strictly literal, cause-and-effect universe, the world of this novel—which feels more like a long poem—will mesmerize you. Here, ends are beginnings. Beginnings don't end. And stories are mirrors, eternally facing each other, bouncing off each other, splitting into dozens of oddly shaped pieces, into harmless shards of magic and longing.”
–The Chicago Tribune
We will be using the Holt paperback edition, ISBN 978-0805088335, which is available at
We will be using the Vintage Contemporary edition, ISBN 978-0307387462