The story about to begin, will lead us into an universe where characters are knots merged in a web -- people crossing at due timings, showing that nothing happens by chance in this mysterious whole where we all interact, complementing each other, towards an incognito purpose -- something undefined, we feel bigger then us, where all those crossing paths will hopefully gain a common sense! When he finds items left behind, lost, he brings them home in the hopes that he may reunite them with the person who is missing them.

Padua was clearly a house where all these things, including the tray cloth, were part of every day life”. So he collects random objects—meaningless to others—and imagines what they once meant to their owners. Then, he decides to pass his huge collection on to his house assistant and asks her to make sure everything finds its home, and this is when the story began unravelling to me, because she accepts this challenge as a way to make up for her being a huge disappointment to her parents? Eventually Laura, Freddy, and Sunshine find a way to reunite the objects with their owners, and once they do so, the healing process can begin.Anthony has dedicated his life to a single eccentric mission: He gathers objects he finds carelessly dropped by others—everyday things that may hold unsuspected sentimental value to those who lost them.

The Keeper of Lost Things is a delightful easy-read book with a unique story that is entertaining and highly enjoyable. Laura enlists the help of a teenaged neighbor nicknamed Sunshine who has Down syndrome and whose good cheer helps Laura. At the end I discover that this is a debut novel (impressive), the author comes from Bedford in the U. As a child I read everything I could lay my hands on: The Moomintrolls, A Hundred Million Francs, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the back of cereal packets and gravestones.Maybe my expectations for this book were a bit too high since I picked it up because it was nominated for Goodreads’ Best Fiction 2017, but I can’t say I understand why it’s on this list.

This time, she dips into The Odyssey for the legend of Circe, a nymph who turns Odysseus’ crew of men into pigs. Whether from isolation, malice, or simple boredom, people there were far more credulous and excitable than educated people are generally thought to be, and this hermetic, overheated atmosphere made it a thriving black petri dish of melodrama and distortion. As the end nears, he bequeaths his secret life’s mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and and all its lost treasures, including an irritable ghost. A ghost, an abundance of eye rolling but beautiful coincidences, some lovable characters, especially a young woman named Sunshine.

Laura befriends Anthony’s gardener, Freddy, and a 19-year-old neighbor, Sunshine, who has Down's syndrome.

I loved the characters in this, even the snooty Portia, and especially Sunshine, and Anthony’s story, wonderful, but heartbreaking. Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles—Found, on the playing field, Derrywood Park, 2nd September. He knows too well the pain of losing something dear, and knows the value in having something to hold onto. But, like objects, people do not stay around forever, and Anthony eventually leaves this ongoing quest in the capable hands of his caretaker, Laura, who appears equally as “lost” as his beloved objects. The narration of her character had me seeing her so vividly, making her one of my favorite characters in a book full of touching characters.While there are several pov’s, all are intertwined and have a unique connection to the lost objects. There is an altruistic tone to the story rather than an obsessive covetous desire to amass belongings. The Keeper of Lost Things" is beautiful to read and really quite unique, I would without doubt recommend this exquisite book wholeheartedly. This lonely, scorned figure learns herbs and potions, surrounds herself with lions, and, in a heart-stopping chapter, outwits the monster Scylla to propel Daedalus and his boat to safety. The treatment of the dogs, the way their people love them so deeply and share their days with them, is just another part of the story that worked so well for me.