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''What Was Lost'' is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. ''What Was Lost'' won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award.〔Brown, Mark, 2008-01-03, (Dogged postie wins first novel prize, ) ''Guardian''.〕 == Development of the novel == O'Flynn found inspiration for ''What Was Lost'' while she was working as an assistant manager in a record shop. She was interested in the difference in shopping centres by day and by night — crowded with shoppers during the day, but empty and bleak at night.〔Martin, Arthur, 2008-01-03, (The book that almost got away, ) ''The Daily Mail''.〕 She found ideas for her book from her job in the Merry Hill Shopping Centre near Dudley in the West Midlands.〔Alberge, Dalya, 2008-01-03, (Rejected author has last laugh ), ''Times''.〕 ''What Was Lost'' was rejected by 20 agents and publishers before being accepted for publication by Tindal Street Press, a small Birmingham publisher.〔〔
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