THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER · Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2026 · Indian subcontinent edition
The Flynns are not alright. Since their parents opened up their marriage, things have gone badly for all three daughters.
Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior, known locally as 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, keeps up a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And Harper, the brilliant youngest, is being packed off to a wilderness reform camp for insisting that someone — or something — is monitoring the town's citizens.
Over all of it falls the shadow of Paul Alabaster, a local billionaire about whom rumours of corruption circulate and into which nobody dares dig. Nobody except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the whole family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy — one that might, finally, bring them back together.
Madeline Cash's debut novel arrives rippling with humour, warmth and style, and turns family dysfunction into an art form. Lena Dunham calls her a voice like no other; the Financial Times found it fiendishly readable. Leslie Jamison says she devoured it.
About the author
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. Lost Lambs is her first novel.
Edition details
- Doubleday trade paperback, 336 pages
- For sale in the Indian subcontinent only
- Published February 2026
