In Lost and Found Liz Byrski has returned to the theme of searching for a lost love. How many people sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a ‘sliding doors’ moment in their own lives? I don’t think I’m alone in imagining occasionally what would have happened if I had followed a different path at a key point in my (very) long ago past.
After living in Western Australia for thirty years, having moved there from England, Rose takes a trip back to Rye in Sussex to see if she can catch up with her first love, Tom. Rose has never understood why Tom turned away from her and she has decided that now is the time to find out.
Rose reacquaints herself with the town and with old friends. Although this isn’t how she pictured her return to Rye, she is starting to find answers to the questions she has held on to for such a long time; and in the process she embarks on a new, entirely unexpected friendship. Rose loves Australia and has had a fulfilling life there but she is also feeling the pull of her homeland.
As usual, Liz Byrski has created vivid, atmospheric settings for her story. Her warm, sensitive writing reminds me of Maeve Binchy a little, although Liz’s style is all her own.
Published by Pan Macmillan
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