Lost Lambs

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Finalist for the 2026 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club Pick for August 2026. <BR><BR>"Extremely smart, impossibly funny, and just plain fun to read-this book hums with a brilliant, lunatic energy all its own. I finished it in a day." -Caro Claire Burke, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yesteryear <BR><BR>"If the Royal Tenenbaums were middle-class and likable, they'd be this madcap family." -The New York Times Book Review<BR><BR>"Madeline Cash is a voice like no other." -Lena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Famesick<BR><BR>"Funny, fast and intoxicating. Believe the hype." -Dua Lipa<BR><BR>"I loved it. I raced through it. It's just fantastic writing." -Sarah Jessica Parker<BR><BR>Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. <BR><BR>The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crimes Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone-or something-is monitoring the town's citizens.<BR><BR>Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container exposes a criminal conspiracy that unwittingly endangers her family-a crisis that just may bring them closer together.<BR><BR>Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynns and the characters around them, Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. In it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

'IT'S FUNNY, FAST AND INTOXICATING. BELIEVE THE HYPE' DUA LIPADUA'S SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB PICK FOR AUGUST'I LOVED IT, I RACED THROUGH IT. IT'S JUST FANTASTIC WRITING' SARAH JESSICA PARKER'EXTREMELY SMART, IMPOSSIBLY FUNNY, AND JUST PLAIN FUN TO READ' CARO CLAIRE BURKE, AUTHOR OF YESTERYEAR'A VOICE LIKE NO OTHER' LENA DUNHAMThink 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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2026The instant Sunday Times bestseller'I LAUGHED SO HARD I SLIPPED A DISC' BILLIE PIPER'ECCENTRIC, FUNNY, DEEPLY HUMAN... I LOVED EVERY PAGE' EMMA ROBERTS'THE MOST WILDLY ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' HARPER'S BAZAAR'THE DEBUT NOVEL FOR 2026 THAT HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN THE MOST SHOUTED ABOUT' THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE'A DARKLY FUNNY FAMILY SAGA' BUSTLE'AN INSTANT CLASSIC' SHORTLISTReaders love LOST LAMBS'What a ROMP!' ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿'The hype is real!' ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿'Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!' ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿'If Wes Anderson wrote Little Women.' ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿'I'm shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!' ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿'Perhaps the funniest book I've ever read.' ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿

'Wenn Sie in diesem Sommer nur ein Buch lesen, dann dieses!' Jana Felgenhauer, SternEigentlich könnte die Familie Flynn eine Vorbild-Vorstadt-Familie sein: Mutter, Vater und drei Töchter, sonntags geht man in die Kirche. Eigentlich. Denn die Flynns haben es schwer. Jeder für sich und alle miteinander. Seit Mutter Catherine in einer Sinnkrise beschlossen hat, die Ehe zu öffnen, lebt Vater Bud im Auto in der Garage und findet in der Selbsthilfegruppe Zuflucht, die am wenigsten nach Sekte klingt: die Verlorenen Schäfchen. Auch die Töchter suchen ihre Wege aus der familiären Lebenskrise: Die jüngste, Harper, ist sich sicher, dass sie einer großen Verschwörung auf der Spur ist. Louise befindet sich in einem ungünstigen Beziehungsstrudel mit ihrem fundamentalistischen Online-Lover, während die dritte im Bunde, Abigail, einen schweigsamen jungen Mann namens Kriegsverbrecher-Wes datet. Und all diese Fäden laufen ausgerechnet bei einem zwielichtigen Milliardär zusammen.Mit hinreißender Lakonie erzählt Madeline Cash von einer Familie kurz vor dem Kollaps in den Turbulenzen unserer durchmodernisierten Welt. 'Verlorene Schäfchen' ist der Familienroman der Stunde.'Unglaublich witzig, rasant und mitreißend - glaubt dem Hype!' Dua Lipa'Die Dialoge funkeln vor Sprachwitz und Schlagfertigkeit. Ein literarisches Wunder!' Thea Dorn, Das Literarische Quartett'Der Roman brilliert durch seinen Hang zur absurden Komik und Sätze, bei denen einem das Lachen im Halse steckenbleibt.' Lesart, Deutschlandfunk Kultur