I simply adored The Keeper of Lost Things and highly recommend it. It is a charming, heartwarming, and enchanting book comprised of two distinct stories plus mini-stories sprinkled throughout. It is a tale of redemption and finding one’s place and purpose in the world. This book has a little of everything — romance and friendship, love and loss, heartbreak, redemption, and hope with a touch of mystery and the supernatural.
One story involves Laura, who inheritance a house filled with lots of lost things and must try to return as many as she can to their rightful owners. She has help from Freddy and Sunshine, a Down’s syndrome teen who inadvertently says the funniest things. For example, instead of the broadband man, she says “bored van man.” Also, when she conducts a sort of wedding, she says — “Dreary beloved...in holy macaroni...to love and to perish with death now you start... let no man steal their thunder.”
The other story, told in a different timeline, deals with Bomber, a publisher, and his best friend/assistant Eunice. Ruth Hogan is a masterful storyteller because she weaves together these two disparate stories in a very clever way. In addition, she tells these marvelous mini-stories about some of the lost items that are very entertaining and satisfying just by themselves. There are several scattered throughout the book and each time I came across one, I knew I was in for a special treat.
The Keeper of Lost Things is such a delightful read and is very well written. Hogan is skillful at story structure as well as the use of metaphors.
...the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head.
...his lips locked on to my face like a lunar module docking.
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