The Resource Lost & found, Brooke Davis
Lost & found, Brooke Davis
Resource Information
The item Lost & found, Brooke Davis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Lost & found, Brooke Davis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that safter she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book Of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too. Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. She sits behind her front window, hidden by curtains and ivy, and shouts at passers-by, roaring her anger at complete strangers. Until the day Agatha spies a young girl across the street. Karl the touch typist is eighty-seven when his son kisses him on the cheek before leaving him in the nursing home. As he watches his son leave, Karl has a moment of clarity. He escapes the home and takes off in search of something different
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Lost & found
- Title
- Lost & found
- Statement of responsibility
- Brooke Davis
- Title variation
- Lost and found
- Subject
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- trueIntergenerational relations
- trueAbandoned girls
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueDepartment stores
- trueGrief
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueNursing home patients
- Older people -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueRunaway seniors
- Self-realization -- Fiction
- trueSeniors
- trueSeven-year-old girls
- trueWidowers
- trueWidows
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that safter she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book Of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too. Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. She sits behind her front window, hidden by curtains and ivy, and shouts at passers-by, roaring her anger at complete strangers. Until the day Agatha spies a young girl across the street. Karl the touch typist is eighty-seven when his son kisses him on the cheek before leaving him in the nursing home. As he watches his son leave, Karl has a moment of clarity. He escapes the home and takes off in search of something different
- Summary
- Follows a shared encounter between an abandoned seven-year-old, a widowed shut-in, and a nursing home escapee, who embark on a road trip across Western Australia to find the child's mother
- Award
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- Australian Book Industry Awards, General Fiction Book of the Year, 2015.
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Western Australian Emerging Writers Award, 2016
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10392043
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davis, Brooke
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Self-realization
- Older people
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Lost & found, Brooke Davis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000052213352
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 272 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780733632754
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)863214052
- Label
- Lost & found, Brooke Davis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000052213352
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 272 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780733632754
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)863214052
Subject
- trueIntergenerational relations
- trueAbandoned girls
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueDepartment stores
- trueGrief
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueNursing home patients
- Older people -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueRunaway seniors
- Self-realization -- Fiction
- trueSeniors
- trueSeven-year-old girls
- trueWidowers
- trueWidows
Genre
Included in
- trueMainstream and Domestic Fiction (AU)
- trueAustralian Book Industry Awards: General Fiction Book of the Year
- trueBook Club Bests for Australia and New Zealand
- trueWestern Australian Premier's Book Awards: Western Australian Emerging Writers Award
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
Library Locations
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Lionel Bowen Library and Community CentreBorrow it669-673 Anzac Parade, Marouba, NSW, 2035, AU-33.938111 151.237977
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Malabar Community LibraryBorrow it1203 Anzac Parade, Matraville, NSW, 2036, AU-33.962293 151.245961
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Margaret Martin LibraryBorrow itLevel 1, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick, NSW, 2031, AU-33.9151421 151.2408898
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