Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book was so utterly entertaining, delightful, and heartwarming that I gave it five stars for the sheer story-telling pleasure it gave me. Anthony Peardew, a successful writer, has been a keeper of lost things for 40 years - ever since the day he lost a keepsake given to him by his beloved fiancée, Therese -- the same day she died in a tragic accident. In searching for his keepsake, he finds other lost things. He catalogues them carefully in hopes of reuniting them with their owners. They inspire him to write stories. Laura, Anthony's housekeeper of several years, is lost herself after a painful divorce. When she unexpectedly inherits Anthony's home, she also inherits his lost things (with Anthony's request to try to find their owners), his gardener, Freddy, and his special neighbor Sunshine, a Downs syndrome teenager with special gifts of intuition and extrasensory perception. Threaded skillfully into the narrative with effective use of flashback is the story of Eunice, who met the love of her life—Bomber—on the same day Anthony's fiancée was killed. Eunice and Bomber's own heartwarming story leads inexorably to a satisfying intersection with Laura and her lost things. I came to love each of these deliciously quirky characters and was loathe to leave them when the book ended.