Review: The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 368Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Allen and UnwinFormats Available: Paperback Purchasing Info: The Book Depository.co.uk, The Book Depository.com, Good Reads, Allen and Unwin

Book Blurb:

Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness.

Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town’ s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah.

It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their …