There is a well-to-do elderly man, Anthony, living in Britain who collects odds and ends that he finds in his daily life: a glove, a hair bobble, a friendship bracelet, one puzzle piece, and perhaps most meaningfully (which the reader gathers as it’s the very first lost thing told about in the first sentence of the book) a tin full of human remains in the form of ashes which he finds on a train. His friend, caretaker, and assistant is eventually left his worldly things. Anthony posthumously assigns her the task of reuniting these things with their owners. She also is tasked with trying to find Anthony’s lost treasure given to him by his love who was tragically killed on their wedding day. Throughout the book you get snippets of what these lost objects mean and the story behind them. But the reader doesn’t know how it’s all going to connect until the end. This book had pieces that circled around each other and seemed unrelated but reading to the finale paid off in the connections revealed, the character, and the sweet and heartfelt story.
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