Millie Bird is a seven-year-old girl experiencing death
all around her, from
spiders to dogs and in between, then her own father. She
lives in a world
of her own, full of questions about life, death and
purpose.
Millie is deserted at a mall by her mother and encounters
an old man who
is fascinated by typing, calling himself "Karl the touch
typist". Karl's
loving wife has passed and his life has taken on a sad and
unproductive
path. After three days and Millie is still hiding out at
the mall, she sneaks
away to avoid the authorities that are on their way to
collect her. Knowing
her way home, she steals her way to the house where the
neighbor lady
across the street sees her. Agatha has also lost her
husband and is
another old, lost, bitter soul, shutting herself off as a
hermit.
Eventually
Millie, Agatha and Karl begin their adventure together,
trekking across
Australia to find Millie's mother. Each day brings more
sadness for Millie
and more mischief from Agatha and Karl. While struggling
to protect
Millie from the world, it gives Karl and Agatha purpose to
begin living
again. Both realize that getting old doesn't mean your
life has ended.
LOST & FOUND is an absolutely heart-breaking story that
definitely requires a
whole box of Kleenex. Anyone who can read this without
feeling the
loneliness and desolation of this small inquisitive child
has no feelings at
all. Although I found LOST & FOUND a very depressing
read, it will absolutely force
the reader into thoughts usually ignored. I normally read
books of an
upbeat nature, so this is not the best one for me to
judge. This story just
makes my heart hurt. Brooke Davis did a very good job of
portraying the
colorful thoughts and actions of the individual
characters.
An irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very
young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that
happens when no one else is looking
Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always
wears
red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling
mother,
grieving the death of Millie’s father, leaves her in the
big
ladies’ underwear department of a local store and never
returns.
Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house—or
spoken
to another human being—since she was widowed seven years
ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby,
watching
loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily
schedule.
Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers
to type out love notes on his wife’s skin. Now that she’s
gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks.
Karl’s been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment
of
clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he’s on the lam.
Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark
upon
a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie’s
mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a
man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how
it
was.
Together they will discover that old age is not the same
as
death, that the young can be wise, and that letting
yourself
feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy
life.
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