Lost Lambs

Author: Cash, Madeline

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 February 2026 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Doubleday) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 336 pages
241 x 165 x 32 | 536g

‘A voice like no other’ Lena Dunham‘Hilarious’ Megan Nolan‘Fiendishly readable’ Financial Times==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.

Readers are loving LOST LAMBS‘What a ROMP! The best way to start your reading year for 2026.’? ? ? ? ?‘The hype is real!’? ? ? ? ?‘Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!’? ? ? ? ?‘Sheesh! The dysfunction. This read was a ride and I was here for it!’? ? ? ? ?‘I’m shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!’? ? ? ? ?‘Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read.’? ? ? ? ?‘If the Royal Tenenbaums were middle-class and likable, they’d be this madcap family.’ The New York TimesA National bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, The Times, Our Culture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Harper's Bazaar. Belletrist's January Book Club pick.