{"product_id":"lost-lambs-by-madeline-cash-9781529946130","title":"Lost Lambs","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing head and heart together with its own crazy glue, \u003cem\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e follows the spectacular falling apart—and eventual coming together—of the Flynn family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe funny and compassionate new literary novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Goes off like a firework. As sincere as it is funny (and it's very funny)'\u003c\/em\u003e - Ramona Ausubel, bestselling author of The Last Animal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A voice like no other... will shift the way you see the family and community into something operatic, strange and profound.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and creator of comedy-drama Girls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Flynns are not alright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's been disastrous since Bud and Catherine opened up their marriage, and none of the Flynns can remember the last time a meal was cooked, a load of laundry done, or a social code abided by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits—Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town's citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCasting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRippling with humour, warmth and style, \u003cem\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e offers a stunning portrait of the perverse pleasures and perils of our most intimate reality—our family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A great, great American novel'\u003c\/em\u003e - Samantha Hunt, Women's Prize Shortlisted author of The Seas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A dazzling and singular new voice in literary fiction... Loud, hilarious, shocking, and sensitive'\u003c\/em\u003e - Megan Nolan, award-winning author of Ordinary Human Failings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'With a big surge of energy, \u003cem\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e splits the nucleus of the American family'\u003c\/em\u003e - Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection - National Book Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Madeline Cash is a humourist in the darkly humanist tradition of George Saunders and Lorrie Moore, of Vonnegut and Twain'\u003c\/em\u003e - Tim Kreider, author of We Learn Nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Immersive and propulsive and I never wanted it to end. I can't remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters... I loved it. I devoured it'\u003c\/em\u003e - Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033631539436,"sku":"9781529946130","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f72ac28c7f1c0e9604c5562a768f0afb.jpg?v=1764277294","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/lost-lambs-by-madeline-cash-9781529946130","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}