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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2026‘EXTREMELY SMART, IMPOSSIBLY FUNNY, AND JUST PLAIN FUN TO READ’ CARO CLAIRE BURKE, AUTHOR OF YESTERYEAR‘A VOICE LIKE NO OTHER’ LENA DUNHAM Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens.Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.The instant Sunday Times bestseller‘THE MOST WILDLY ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR’ HARPER’S BAZAAR‘THE DEBUT NOVEL FOR 2026 THAT HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN THE MOST SHOUTED ABOUT’ THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE‘A DARKLY FUNNY FAMILY SAGA’ BUSTLE‘AN INSTANT CLASSIC’ SHORTLISTReaders love LOST LAMBS‘What a ROMP!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘The hype is real!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘If Wes Anderson wrote Little Women.’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘I’m shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read.’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Finalist for the 2026 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice."e;Extremely smart, impossibly funny, and just plain fun to read-this book hums with a brilliant, lunatic energy all its own. I finished it in a day."e; -Caro Claire Burke, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yesteryear "e;If the Royal Tenenbaums were middle-class and likable, they'd be this madcap family."e; -The New York Times Book Review"e;Madeline Cash is a voice like no other."e; -Lena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of FamesickRippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone-or something-is monitoring the town's citizens.Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container exposes a criminal conspiracy that unwittingly endangers her family-a crisis that just may bring them closer together.Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynns and the characters around them, Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. In it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2026‘EXTREMELY SMART, IMPOSSIBLY FUNNY, AND JUST PLAIN FUN TO READ’ CARO CLAIRE BURKE, AUTHOR OF YESTERYEAR‘A VOICE LIKE NO OTHER’ LENA DUNHAM Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens.Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.The instant Sunday Times bestseller‘THE MOST WILDLY ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR’ HARPER’S BAZAAR‘THE DEBUT NOVEL FOR 2026 THAT HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN THE MOST SHOUTED ABOUT’ THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE‘A DARKLY FUNNY FAMILY SAGA’ BUSTLE‘AN INSTANT CLASSIC’ SHORTLISTReaders love LOST LAMBS‘What a ROMP!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘The hype is real!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘If Wes Anderson wrote Little Women.’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘I’m shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read.’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Brought to you by Penguin.Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.For the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone - or something - is monitoring the town's citizens.Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy - one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.The instant Sunday Times bestseller'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham'If the Royal Tenenbaums were middle-class and likable, they'd be this madcap family.' The New York Times'Manages to capture something we can all universally relate to: how normal it is to have a dysfunctional family' Sunday Times(c) Madeline Cash 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2026‘EXTREMELY SMART, IMPOSSIBLY FUNNY, AND JUST PLAIN FUN TO READ’ CARO CLAIRE BURKE, AUTHOR OF YESTERYEAR‘A VOICE LIKE NO OTHER’ LENA DUNHAM Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens.Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.The instant Sunday Times bestseller‘THE MOST WILDLY ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR’ HARPER’S BAZAAR‘THE DEBUT NOVEL FOR 2026 THAT HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN THE MOST SHOUTED ABOUT’ THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE‘A DARKLY FUNNY FAMILY SAGA’ BUSTLE‘AN INSTANT CLASSIC’ SHORTLISTReaders love LOST LAMBS‘What a ROMP!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘The hype is real!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘If Wes Anderson wrote Little Women.’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘I’m shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐‘Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read.’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

In this reissue of her debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, skewers our late-stage-Capitalist reality into a strange, but ultimately life-affirming collage of stories.Life is absurd, so is Earth Angel. A biblical plague rains sentient frogs, a childless millennial throws a slumber party, a young couple try experimental drugs to reignite their relationship. Tales of rebellious school girls and apocalypse-fearing marketing executives. Blending reverence and ridicule, the stories that make up Earth Angel are bizarre, playful, inextricably linked, hyper-modern yet timeless. What shines through is Cash’s undeniable affection for the denizens of this strange and surreal world – a place that is at times dark, but not without hope for the future.

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, sublime, life-affirming collage of stories.Earth Angel is a book like no other, the paperback that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an adolescent beauty queen, and a childless millennial walk into a bar. A Biblical plague rains down head lice, aerial drone strikes, gender non-conforming frogs. An app throws a slumber party for a friendless office worker. Texans in the winter, the Taliban in Springtime, Teslas with ℮☥ bumper stickers, Frozen 5 in Arabic, architectural consistency laws in Laurel Canyon, the longest recorded nosebleed in history.An unhinged jet stream that is ultramodern and poignantly timeless, capturing the angst of the post-millennial generation.