Lost Lambs by Cash, Madeline

Description

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 Times

For 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.

Praise for Lost Lambs:

Goes off like a firework. As sincere as it is funny (and it s very funny) Ramona Ausubel, bestselling author of The Last Animal

A great, great American novel Samantha Hunt, Women s Prize longlisted author of The Seas

A dazzling and singular new voice in literary fiction Loud, hilarious, shocking, and sensitive Megan Nolan, award-winning author of Ordinary Human Failings

With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

National Book Award Finalist

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

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