8. What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
This is about a little girl in Birmingham who goes missing in the 80s, and some unhappy people working in a shopping centre 20 years later, who try to find out what happen to her. The plot is really clever, it all links together very neatly without any ridiculous coincidences or anything. The sense of miserable monotony of the lives of the people in the shopping centre is very, very convincing - sometimes I felt thoroughly depressed whilst reading it. I felt really sorry for the characters, too, the way they'd wasted their lives. Sad. Overall a really good read, I just didn't like all the jumps in narrative and perspective, and the way she wrote 'mom' instead of 'mum'. I checked with my Brummie friend and they do not say that there. Over-Americanization. Shocking.
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