{"product_id":"lost-lambs-the-best-book-you-ll-read-all-year","title":"Lost Lambs: by Madeline Cash (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing head and heart together with its own crazy glue, Lost Lambs follows the spectacular falling apart - and eventual coming together - of the Flynn family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe funny and compassionate new literary novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and creator of comedy-drama Girls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Loud, hilarious, shocking and sensitive' Megan Nolan, prize-listed author of Acts of Desperation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'You finish the book with the kind of smile on your face that contemporary fiction rarely leaves you with. Lost Lambs is a perky, fiendishly readable debut.' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone - or something - is monitoring the town's citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCasting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy - one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRippling with humour, warmth and style, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an art form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Lost Lambs-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Goes off like a firework. As sincere as it is funny (and it's very funny)' Ramona Ausubel,bestselling author of The Last Animal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A great, great American novel' Samantha Hunt, Women's Prize longlisted author of The Seas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A dazzling and singular new voice in literary fiction... Loud, hilarious, shocking, and sensitive' Megan Nolan, award-winning author of Ordinary Human Failings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family' Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection - National Book Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Madeline Cash is a humourist in the darkly humanist tradition of George Saunders and Lorrie Moore, of Vonnegut and Twain' Tim Kreider, author of We Learn Nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Immersive and propulsive and I never wanted it to end. I can't remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters... I loved it. I devoured it' Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somiibooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52708371071319,"sku":"9781529946123","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9781529946123.jpg?v=1770143390","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/lost-lambs-the-best-book-you-ll-read-all-year","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}