Caly recommends... Lost Lambs - Madeline Cash

Caly says... A warm, humorous and utterly absurdist story of family dysfunction. Following three young sisters through the deterioration of their parents marriage this is a charming, unpredictable and plotty read full of twists, turns and brilliantly vivid characters. Great for a laugh AND a cry - hilarious with an unmistakably moving sensitivity throughout.  

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Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’.

Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire.

Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together. 

‘A voice like no other’ Lena Dunham

‘Hilarious’ Megan Nolan

‘Fiendishly readable’ Financial Times