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Lost Property
by Helen Paris
‘Books are your friends,’ I say. He shrugs, bites a piece of skin from his thumb and swallows. ‘Without books where would we be?’ I persist. ‘They take us to all sorts of places.’ – Dot Watson
Dot Watson works for the London Transport Lost Property office cataloguing meticulously lost property that is handed in by members of the public. It’s a job that she has been doing for many years and one that she truly enjoys. She sees herself as the custodian of lost property, looking after it until the owner arrives to claim their item. But Dot’s life changes when she meets Mr Appleby who is looking for his holdall that he left on the bus. In particular he would like to be reunited with his late wife’s purse which was in the holdall. So starts Dot’s mission to try and locate the holdall. During her journey Dot has to face her traumatic past, the death of her father, her mother succumbing to dementia, her unlived life in Paris with Emile and the fact that she herself is also truly lost.
I received a copy of this book as part of the Tandem Collective readalong. By the time I’d finished this book I was speechless. The first thing that attracted me to the book was Dot as a character and because she worked with lost property, but as I stated to read I learned there was so much more to this story. I read this book as part of a readalong, but had I not been involved in one it’s a book I would have read continuously especially because at times it was hard to stop at the next prompt. The storyline was original, unique and pulled at my heartstrings. As a character it was hard not to like Dot and when she was going through a tough time it felt like the reader was going through this with her. I loved that she adored collecting travel guides. There were also some sensitive topics covered in this book which the author wrote about and dealt with in a sensitive way.
This is Dot’s story of finding herself, finding meaning to her life and coming to peace with events that were outside of her control.
A book I would highly recommend to all.
I received a gifted copy for an honest review
Dot Watson works for the London Transport Lost Property office cataloguing meticulously lost property that is handed in by members of the public. It’s a job that she has been doing for many years and one that she truly enjoys. She sees herself as the custodian of lost property, looking after it until the owner arrives to claim their item. But Dot’s life changes when she meets Mr Appleby who is looking for his holdall that he left on the bus. In particular he would like to be reunited with his late wife’s purse which was in the holdall. So starts Dot’s mission to try and locate the holdall. During her journey Dot has to face her traumatic past, the death of her father, her mother succumbing to dementia, her unlived life in Paris with Emile and the fact that she herself is also truly lost.
I received a copy of this book as part of the Tandem Collective readalong. By the time I’d finished this book I was speechless. The first thing that attracted me to the book was Dot as a character and because she worked with lost property, but as I stated to read I learned there was so much more to this story. I read this book as part of a readalong, but had I not been involved in one it’s a book I would have read continuously especially because at times it was hard to stop at the next prompt. The storyline was original, unique and pulled at my heartstrings. As a character it was hard not to like Dot and when she was going through a tough time it felt like the reader was going through this with her. I loved that she adored collecting travel guides. There were also some sensitive topics covered in this book which the author wrote about and dealt with in a sensitive way.
This is Dot’s story of finding herself, finding meaning to her life and coming to peace with events that were outside of her control.
A book I would highly recommend to all.
I received a gifted copy for an honest review