This was an…odd…book. I liked the premise of finding and treasuring lost things but beyond the weird confusion I felt in the storyline, it took an odd turn when it all the sudden started talking about ghosts without a bit of the abnormality of it, or waiting for the punchline of irony that never came. Apparently ghosts and haunted houses are just no big deal and run of the mill to the characters??

There was some decent British humor and I liked that there was a very thoughtful character with Down Syndrome portrayed, and that Laura, one of main characters, had to struggle to find her purpose and her motivation after a series of bad choices and blows. But the book itself was a bit difficult for me to find context for in the way it was written. It kept bouncing to Eunice without much understanding of why - and obviously that was revealed at the end but for most of the book it just felt arbitrary. And the stories of the lost things, for most of the book I was trying to figure out whether they were the real actual stories of the things or whether it was the made up stories that Anthony wrote. The book did a poor job of presenting that in my opinion. You found out in the end but it would not have hurt the story to explain that in the process.

Overall it just felt fairly confusing to me. Interesting but confusing.

Thanks to Netgalley for the copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.