WHAT WAS LOST WINS ANOTHER NOMINATION

25-08-2007

Brummie novelist and Midlands Arts Centre ticket seller Cath O' Flynn has received another plaudit for her first novel "What Was Lost?" which is based at a Merry Hill-style shopping centre.

It's been long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award 2007 - just weeks after being long listed for the Man Booker Prize.

The paper described it as: 'An exceptional, polyphonic novel of urban disaffection, written with humour and pathos.

Kate's deceptively jaunty diary reveals a consumer-driven society choking on its own loneliness; a ghost story and an examination of unspeakable loss'.

To see our interview with Cath O'Flynn click here. And to see her reading exclusive extracts from the book click here and here.