LOST & FOUND written by Brooke Davis is one of those
stories that left me
thinking about life, death, and growing old. This novel
covers the lives of three
people, two elderly adults and one seven year old child
that come together and
learn a little something about living and learning to
trust others. With this being
Brooke Davis' first novel, I feel that she did a great job
of giving detailed
accounts from not only a child's point of view but that of
a woman and man who
each lived a full life with their own struggles of pain
and insecurity of what their
future holds.
Millie has just lost her dad and her mother leaves her at
a mall and never
comes back for her. Karl the touch typist, as he calls
himself because he types
with his fingers as he talks, has lost his wife, Evie and
his son has sent him to live
in a nursing home that he soon breaks out of and meets
Millie. Millie approaches
soon Agatha Pantha who has not left her house since her
husband died, and
Agatha finds herself taking steps out in the big world to
help a little girl find her
mother. The three new friends find hope within each other
when they were not
even looking. In their journey across Australia to find
Millie's mom you will cry
and rejoice and find yourself thinking a little bit more
of love, life, and the ones
we share it with.
I love finding books that give me the story from the eyes
of a child. Even
though this novel does not only give that, but it also
makes you see life from the
eyes of those that have lived many years and how they have
changed in mind and
body and the effects it has on the quality of life.
Plainly, it made me think which I
love stories that do that. The writing style is different
from what I'm use to but
kept my interest with a storyline that grabs you by the
gut from the beginning.
Brooke Davis did a magnificent job with writing LOST &
FOUND! She even
included a little about herself and dealing with life that
has inspired her to write
this novel. I cannot wait and I hope to read more from
this author.
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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