Lost Lambs

The funny and compassionate new literary novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form.

Early praise:

• ‘A voice like no other’ — Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and creator of comedy-drama Girls
• ‘Loud, hilarious, shocking and sensitive’ — Megan Nolan, prize-listed author of Acts of Desperation
• ‘You finish the book with the kind of smile on your face that contemporary fiction rarely leaves you with. Lost Lambs is a perky, fiendishly readable debut.’ — Financial Times

For the three Flynn daughters, it has been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. The brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone, or something, is monitoring the town’s citizens.

Casting a shadow across their lives 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 that may finally bring them closer together.

Rippling with humour, warmth and style, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an art form.

Praise for Lost Lambs:

• ‘Goes off like a firework. As sincere as it is funny, and it is very funny’ — Ramona Ausubel, bestselling author of The Last Animal
• ‘A great, great American novel’ — Samantha Hunt, Women’s Prize longlisted author of The Seas
• ‘A dazzling and singular new voice in literary fiction… Loud, hilarious, shocking, and sensitive’ — Megan Nolan, award-winning author of Ordinary Human Failings
• ‘With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family’ — Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection — National Book Award Finalist
• ‘Madeline Cash is a humourist in the darkly humanist tradition of George Saunders and Lorrie Moore, of Vonnegut and Twain’ — Tim Kreider, author of We Learn Nothing
• ‘Immersive and propulsive and I never wanted it to end. I cannot 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’ — Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters