The Keeper of Lost Things: The feel-good novel of the year

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The Keeper of Lost Things: The feel-good novel of the year

The Keeper of Lost Things: The feel-good novel of the year

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There's a gorgeous cover to this book too which is becoming quite a trademark of this author, bright and colourful with little pictures of some of the 'lost' items dotted around the roses which they themselves are symbolic to the story. Now, with her own end drawing near, she has lost something precious—a tragic twist of fate that forces her to break a promise she once made.

Had I known that a slight tolerance for ghosts, magic and over the top coincidences are required to enjoy The Keeper of Lost Things, I may have been hesitant to give it a try.This time, she dips into The Odyssey for the legend of Circe, a nymph who turns Odysseus’ crew of men into pigs. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects—the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidentally left behind—and writing stories about them. The bubbling of romance and the hangover from previous relationships is never far away in this novel. That event has coloured and haunted his entire life, with guilt over a broken promise, a lost communion medal, and led to the enormous collection of lost items which he has found with the hope of reuniting them with their owners. The novel, with its distinctive feminist tang, starts with the sentence: “When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.

From about the 10% mark, I knew that this book was probably going to be a one star, and I couldn't wait for it to be over. Hardly any plot and metaphors as far as the eye can see, and bland characters that "need to be saved" because they have some mental health issues or might have made a mistake in the past.I consider myself to be a modern woman —- I rarely tap into an appreciation for people’s sentimental tchotchkes. I used to imagine stories about the previous owners (and the ones before that, and so on) of these objects that ended up in our home. Interspliced with Laura’s narrative is the story, which begins in the 1970s, of Eunice, a 30-something woman hired as secretary to a London publisher some 20 years her senior named Bomber.



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