Lost Lambs

The funny and compassionate new literary novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form.‘A voice like no other’ Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and creator of comedy-drama Girls'Loud, hilarious, shocking and sensitive' Megan Nolan, prize-listed author of Acts of Desperation'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 TimesFor 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.Casting 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.Rippling with humour, warmth and style, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an art form.