casacostello 's review for:

Lost Property by Helen Paris

2.0

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This was not the book I was expecting. I struggled with the writing style - The author is obviously very keen on words and their origins and unfortunately seems intent on using as many as possible all at once. I still felt at the end of the book that I don’t quite know who Dot Watson is - Is she a rather lovable, sad type along the lines of Eleanor Oliphant or someone who people warm to but loses her way? The parts about her family were there best for me - tinged with sadness. I don’t do well reading about dementia storylines. I couldn’t get to grips with the hold-all storyline but wanted to - I just felt there was so many sentences getting in the way of us being told exactly why Dot was so desperate to reunite the belongings with their owner. Especially as she appeared to leave the job so easily for someone who cared so much.