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Catherine O'Flynn

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Catherine O'Flynn, born in 1970, is a British writer.

Her debut novel, What Was Lost, won the Costa First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, The Commonwealth Writers' Prize and The Southbank Show Literature Award. It was longlisted for the Booker and Orange Prizes. She was named Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year at the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards.

Her second novel The News Where You Are, published in 2010, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, an Edgar Allen Poe Award and was a Channel 4 TV Book Club selection.

Her third novel Mr Lynch's Holiday is published in 2013.

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Lori & Max

Lori & Max, my first novel for children is published by Firefly Press in a couple of weeks. Just got copies today which is pretty exciting. The book is inspired partly by my own history as a (failed) child detective which I recently wrote about in the FT Weekend magazine. I’m going to be talking about Lori & Max in various picturesque settings over the next few weeks, so if you’re nearby, or want

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	What Was Lost 3.47 avg rating — 6,045 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The News Where You Are 3.24 avg rating — 1,352 ratings — published 2010 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Lynch's Holiday 3.63 avg rating — 760 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly (Editor), Abondance Matanda (Contributor), Laura Waddell (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lori and Max 4.26 avg rating — 77 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lori and Max and the Book Thieves 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roads Ahead by Catherine O'Flynn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Iain Grant (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Finalists: Excerpts from the Five 2007 Costa Award-winning Books: No. II by Catherine O'Flynn (Goodreads Author), Ann Kelley, A.L. Kennedy liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Booker Trio by Clare Morrall (Goodreads Author), Catherine O'Flynn (Goodreads Author), Gaynor Arnold 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MR. TITTLEWIT'S HOLIDAY by M. Forster Knight, Catherine O'Flynn (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I don’t know – I suppose if you’re very unhappy at home, anywhere is better than there.”
― Catherine O'Flynn, What Was Lost

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“He was glad some of the pain was fading, had already faded so much since the first year. But it seemed more to be a trade off: with the pain went details and memories. People had said, ‘Time heals,’ but he realized time didn’t heal, time just eroded and confused, and he didn’t think that was the same thing at all.”
― Catherine O'Flynn, What Was Lost

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“She found the evenings long and empty, and the nights worse. She dreaded the weekends.”
― Catherine O'Flynn, What Was Lost

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