The Keeper of Lost Things

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But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. There is another couple whose story starts the day Anthony's fiance dies, all those years earlier, and their platonic love is just as strong as the love Anthony and his late fiance had for each other. She is curious by what is behind his office door but knows Anthony will have a perfectly good reason for doing so. The background and interaction with the characters in the story add wonderful perspectives, especially with Sunshine.

Having said that, the group did enjoy Anthony's imagined stories for each lost item and found them very creative (the ones highlighted in the discussion were the jigsaw piece and the umbrella). There’s even a familiar supernatural presence that has unfinished business - not in a horror context but to finally complete a particular task. But once I got the hang of it, especially the back stories on some of the lost items, it clipped along at a nice pace.

A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us. WE’RE ALL JUST WAITING TO BE FOUND…An irresistible debut novel of lost objects and second chances, in the vein of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Rosie Project. The final pages of The Keeper of Lost Things manage to bring all of the plot threads together quite neatly, perhaps a little too neatly for some readers. And then there is the Keeper of Lost Things, who knew how to connect the dots for those who needed to find ending in the clues.

Throw in a small little love story, a wonderful neighbor Sunshine, a girl with disabilities, and you have such a heartwarming story. I’m Charlotte, a British book blogger who also moonlights as an agency nurse in hospitals all around the south west of England. If you are a lover of wonderfully told stories where people truly love one another, then this book is ever so right for you.She then added more than a few eccentrics, a feisty spirit and a sweet innocent by the name of Sunshine whom you will come to love, and gave us a story brimming with wit, wisdom and charm galore.

Her own success is an inspiration within itself, as this authoress was older when her first book was published.However, sometimes I got lost a bit in the switching of stories back and forth and wish I had the print. It had a bit of everything, romance, ghostly presences, magic, mystery and clever literary references being just some. And I’ve already put her new novel, The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes on my list for when I need a small dose of frothy, feel-good bookishness. An example of where we felt there could have been more depth was with Laura and Vince's confrontation. I felt moved several times while reading this novel and appreciated the writing style of the author.