Lost Lambs by Cash, Madeline

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Author: Cash, MadelineModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 5 February 2026 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Doubleday) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 336 pages241 x 165 x 32 | 536g
The funny and compassionate new literary novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form.A voice like no other Lena Dunham, award-winning writer, director and creator of comedy-drama GirlsLoud, hilarious, shocking and sensitive Megan Nolan, prize-listed author of Acts of DesperationYou finish the book with the kind of smile on your face that contemporary fiction rarely leaves you with. Lost Lambs is a perky, fiendishly readable debut. Financial TimesFor the three Flynn daughters, its 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 towns 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 Alabasters machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.Rippling with humour, warmth and style, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an art form.Praise for Lost Lambs:Goes off like a firework. As sincere as it is funny (and its very funny) Ramona Ausubel, bestselling author of The Last AnimalA great, great American novel Samantha Hunt, Womens Prize longlisted author of The SeasA dazzling and singular new voice in literary fiction Loud, hilarious, shocking, and sensitive Megan Nolan, award-winning author of Ordinary Human FailingsWith a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection National Book Award FinalistMadeline Cash is a humourist in the darkly humanist tradition of George Saunders and Lorrie Moore, of Vonnegut and Twain Tim Kreider, author of We Learn NothingImmersive and propulsive and I never wanted it to end. I cant remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters I loved it. I devoured it Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters