If you\u2019d believe what the charmingly humble Brooke Davis says, it\u2019s almost as if her book was picked up by publishing house,\u00a0Hachette by mistake.<\/p>\n
But Brooke has worked on her novel, Lost & Found<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0for five years, editing and whittling away at the surplus words, taking what started out as a rough 300,000 word manuscript to a polished\u00a060,000 word novel that has now\u00a0reached international acclaim with translation rights sold in\u00a016 countries and counting.<\/p>\n Lost & Found is\u00a0<\/i>deeply personal to Brooke –\u00a0she has\u00a0used the characters’\u00a0voices to help work through her own feelings about the sudden death of her own mother seven years earlier.<\/p>\n In the foreword to Lost & Found<\/i>, Brooke touchingly details her thoughts on the grieving process.\u00a0 “I wanted to explore what it meant to grieve, not as a process that begins and ends and is only about sadness, but as a part of life. As something that we have to work out how to live with, in among everything else there is –\u00a0the good, the bad, the indifferent.”<\/p>\n Lost & Found<\/i> strings together the lives of\u00a0three people, all of\u00a0whom\u00a0were forced to confront the\u00a0untimely loss and death of a loved one,<\/ins>\u00a0in different ways. Even though the\u00a0book deals\u00a0with such\u00a0a potentially dark topic, Brooke manages to weave humour, quirky moments and poignant insight throughout the narrative.<\/p>\n \u201cEven though, ultimately, it\u2019s a very kind of charming and warm-hearted and life-affirming book, there\u2019s quite a serious philosophical underpinning to it,\u201d says Brooke\u2019s PhD\u00a0mentor and author, David Whish Wilson<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cBrooke has quite a unique voice in Australian fiction and that was one of the things that so thrilled me when I first started reading her manuscript.\u201d<\/p>\n Brooke has taken\u00a0her book from manuscript to novel through Curtin University\u2019s postgraduate creative writing program, which has helped nurture a number of other\u00a0incredibly talented writers,\u00a0such as Yvette Walker<\/a>, Rachel Robertson<\/a>, Sam Carmody<\/a> and Natasha Lester<\/a>.<\/p>\n Buy – Lost & Found<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n ISBN:<\/b>9780733632907<\/p>\n
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