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The Secret of Lost Things.(mystery of a teenage girl)(Critical essay)(Brief article)
Recently orphaned and almost penniless, eighteen-year-old Rosemary Savage arrives in New York from Tasmania clutching a Huon-pine box containing her mother's ashes, a remembrance of one of the many lost things in this intricate literary mystery. She gets a job at a mammoth used bookstore where review copies occupy the basement, or "hell," and rare volumes the fifth floor, or "heaven," and where the only cataloguing ...
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