Lost Lambs

<b>The funny and compassionate new literary novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form.</b><br> <br> 'Goes off like a firework<b>. As sincere as it is funny (and it's very funny)'</b> Ramona Ausubel, bestselling author of <i>The Last Animal</i><br> <br> '<b>A voice like no other...</b> will shift the way you see the family and community into something operatic, strange and profound.' Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and creator of comedy-drama <i>Girls</i><br> <br> <b><i>The Flynns are not alright.</i></b><br> <br> It'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.<br> <br> Their 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.<br> <br> Casting 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.<br> <br> <b>Rippling with humour, warmth and style, <i>Lost Lambs</i> offers a stunning portrait of the perverse pleasures and perils of our most intimate reality- our family.</b><br> <br> Praise for <i>Lost Lambs-</i><br> <br> <b>'A great, great American novel'</b> Samantha Hunt, Women's Prize Shortlisted author of <i>The Seas</i><br> <br> <b>'A dazzling and singular new voice in literary fiction</b>... Loud, hilarious, shocking, and sensitive' Megan Nolan, award-winning author of <i>Ordinary Human Failings</i><br> <br> 'With a big surge of energy, <i>Lost Lambs</i> <b>splits the nucleus of the American family'</b> Tony Tulathimutte, author of <i>Rejection</i> - National Book Award Finalist<br> <br> 'Madeline Cash is <b>a humourist in the darkly humanist tradition of George Saunders and Lorrie Moore, of Vonnegut and Twain'</b> Tim Kreider, author of <i>We Learn Nothing</i><br> <br> <b>'Immersive and propulsive and I never wanted it to end</b>. I can't remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters... <b>I loved it. I devoured it'</b> Leslie Jamison, author of <i>Splinters</i>