Walter understood his communication disorder and how to deal with it. He learnt to say just what was necessary to get by and his mother Lucy encouraged him to write down important information. Walter also found he had a gift - he could find lost things. People were careless and lost the most important things, but Walter would listen to them and write down where they had been, when the article had been lost and go out and find it for them. All the time still looking for his lost father.
Lucy ran a bakery, cooking her own cakes from the kitchen at the back where she lived with Walter Jnr. The way Walter Jnr describes it makes you want to visit this magical bakery.
"There were rum-infused black and white penguin cookies that waddled and tipped over each other and competitive chestnut tortes that galloped across the display and trampled the molasses pecan cinnamon rolls, and there were desserts too - pumpkin five-spice ice-cream bombes that didn't melt until you ate them and wedges of salted butter country apple galette that trickled into your knotted muscles to relax them and towering squares of fizzy angel food cake that rendered you just a bit lighter and monogrammed petits fours that reminded you of the places you came from and lemon verbena chiffon cupcakes that freshened you up and chilled lychee puddings that slowed time and made you breathe deeper."
Lucy kept a special mysterious book in the shop window of the bakery. One day it goes missing and it is Walter Jnr's mission to find it. How hard can that be? After all he is the master of finding lost things. When their landlord suddenly threatens to close the shop, it us up to Walter Jnr to find the missing book and save his mother's shop.
An excellent read, one that makes the reader smile and wonder.
Posted by Flaxmere Library Book Chat
Catalogue link: The Lustre of Lost Thing
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