Catherine O’Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in her parents’ sweet shop as the youngest child of a large family. Over the years, she has been a teacher, a web editor and a mystery shopper. Her first novel - What Was Lost - draws on her experiences of working in shopping centres and of growing up as a child fascinated by clues, suspects and methods of detection. What Was Lost was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has now won the Costa First Novel Award. The story is about a young girl who goes missing in Birmingham. Twenty years later, the image of a child with a toy monkey is spotted on the CCTV screens of a local shopping centre by the night security guard Kurt. He - and the sister of the prime suspect – then try and discover the fate of little Kate Meaney. Catherine O’Flynn joins Jenni to discuss her debut novel.
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn is published by Tindal Street Press ISBN 9780 9551384
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