Everything Lost, Everything Found: Perfect for readers of The Midnight Watch and The Last Painting of...

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Matthew Hooton

Everything Lost, Everything Found

Perfect for readers of The Midnight Watch and The Last Painting of Sara De Vos, LONGLISTED for...

Matthew Hooton

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HARPER360
30 April 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction; Fiction: special features

A gorgeously written, immersive and deeply moving novel about the stories that shape us and the memories that ensnare us.

Longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025

In 1929, young Jack travels with his parents to Henry Ford's rubber-tree plantation in the Brazilian Amazon. In this lushly beautiful but dangerous place, he loses his much-loved mother to a horrific accident. This has terrible repercussions for his family, and Jack is eventually forced into the jungle to search for his absent father.

Seven decades later, living in the heart of Michigan's rust belt on the cusp of a new millennium, Jack faces the challenges of old age, including the gradual loss of his wife of fifty years, whose memory is disappearing even as Jack's own memories insistently resurface to invade and colonise his present.

Everything Lost, Everything Found, from master storyteller Matthew Hooton, is haunting, tender and poignant, a rich and emotional novel about loss, grief and memory, and how the past never truly leaves us.

'Memory rises and ebbs in this poignant novel spanning almost a century ... Hooton's novel is an emotive and richly told tale of grief and loss, of family and the haunted halls of memory ... vivid, free- flowing and immersive.'

Sydney Morning Herald

'Beautifully written ...

A remarkable book by a master storyteller' Newtown Review of Books

By: Matthew Hooton
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 377g
ISBN: 9781460765869
ISBN 10: 1460765869
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew Hooton is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Deloume Road and Typhoon Kingdom, and has written short stories and essays for publications around the world. He holds degrees in creative writing from the University of Victoria in Canada, Bath Spa University in the UK, and the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film, and an early-career researcher at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.