{"product_id":"lost-lambs-madeline-cash","title":"Lost Lambs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER · Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2026 · Indian subcontinent edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Flynns are not alright. Since their parents opened up their marriage, things have gone badly for all three daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbigail, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadeline Cash's debut novel arrives rippling with humour, warmth and style, and turns family dysfunction into an art form. Lena Dunham calls her \u003cem\u003ea voice like no other\u003c\/em\u003e; the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e found it \u003cem\u003efiendishly readable\u003c\/em\u003e. Leslie Jamison says she devoured it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMadeline Cash\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder of \u003cem\u003eForever Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and the author of the story collection \u003cem\u003eEarth Angel\u003c\/em\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sewanee Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Drift\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBomb\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEdition details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoubleday trade paperback, 336 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor sale in the Indian subcontinent only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished February 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Doubleday (Penguin Random House)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52494055080152,"sku":"9781529946130","price":719.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9781529946130-jacket-large.jpg?v=1789726970","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/lost-lambs-madeline-cash","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}