The Secret of Lost Things
by:
Sheridan Hay (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007243921 (0007243928)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 354
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Writing,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
New York,
Australia
In this coming of age story of a young Tasmanian girl, wallflower Rosemary, only Walter Geist, both a tragic character and albino, is truly interesting. And perhaps Oscar, at first. With his handsome looks that seemingly - nonsense of course - contradict his a-sexuality. The other characters populat...
Not bad but certainly disappointing. Having read Byats's "Possession" and Carlos Ruiz Zafón's "The shadow of the wind" (ok, and admitting that I dumbly assumed their influence on Hay's story), I expected much more.Without the prejudices, "The secret of lost things" could be a good companion for a so...
This was a somewhat interesting read. I liked the setting of the bookstore and the idea of a lost novel, but the characters lacked development and were somewhat unbelievable. I was expecting more from this book.
I really like a lot of the odd characters in this book, but the story seemed "much ado about nothing", and the whole pursuit if the missing manuscript is a very dull story. The one segment that held some intimacy between characters was just plain yucky and ruined the entire book for me.
I thought I would really like this book but I'm sorry to say was disappointed. A young girl named Rosemary comes to New York City following the death of her mother and secures a job in a bookstore called the Arcade that deals in rare and valuable books. There were several employees of the bookstore...
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