'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham

The instant Sunday Times bestseller

'I LOVED IT . . . Masterfully and totally realised' Pandora Sykes
**'The most wildly original book of the year'** Harper's Bazaar
'Required reading in the same way that Normal People was' Jack Edwards
**'The debut novel for 2026 that has** undoubtedly been the most shouted about**'** The Sunday Times Style
'The year's brightest literary star' Independent
**'Get ready to laugh out loud' ELLE
'A darkly funny family saga' Bustle**

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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.

'As bold and assured a debut as Zadie Smith's White Teeth or Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides**' MEGAN NOLAN**

An instant classic and a comic novel about family you could recommend to just about anyone' Shortlist

'Manages to capture something we can all universally relate to: how normal it is to have a dysfunctional family' Sunday Times

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Madeline Cash is the founder of Forever Magazine and the author of the story collection Earth Angel. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, The Baffler, The Sewanee Review, The Drift, and Bomb, among other publications. Lost Lambs is her debut novel.