"The keeper of lost things" Ruth Hogan.

       I find on Amazon fantastic book with this title which intrigued me.
I see then I have no trouble read in English and I can read some books that have not been translated or will be translated later.

    "The keeper of lost things" seemed to me a very strange book.
Such an everyday life of an older man who likes to accumulate lost things.
The beginning of a book is...simple:

               "Charles Bramwell Brockley was travelling alone and without a ticket on the 14.42 from London Bridge to Brighton.
The Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin in which he was travelling teetered precariously on the edge of the seat as the train juddered to a halt at Haywards Heath.But just as it toppled forward towards the carriage floor it was gathered up by a safe pair of hands.(...)
Nothing surprised Anthony any more,but loss always moved him,however great or small.From a drawer he took a brown paper luggage label and a gold-nibbed fountain pen.He wrote carefully in black ink;the date and time,and the place very specific:
            Huntley&Palmers biscuit tin containing cremation                                        remains?
        Found,sixth carriage from the front,14.42 train from London                      Bridge to Brighton.
            Deceased unknown.God bless and rest in peace."

  I did not find anything interesting here, but I thought:"You have to give this book a chance".
Then there is the woman, the divorcee, who somehow wants to put her life together.
She values the housekeeper's job with an older gentleman and falls in love with his stylish, Victorian home with a garden full of roses.
Unfortunately, the older man is dying but rather wants to bond with his beloved in the garden where together years ago they planted roses.
The house, just before Antoni's death, is rewritten in Laura's decent and interesting things begin to happen in her life.
She already knows Freddy well, who has been in the garden and is still nursing him and ...he is in love with her.
The next person she meets is a girl with Down syndrome who loves to brew tea and ... can read the stories of things stored in the room and even feel the feelings of the person involved with the lost thing.

   
  At home suddenly strange things start to happen and writing this I mean really strange things.
I never had anything to do with spirits even the good ones, but if I had to wake up every morning and listen to one melody from the album, excuse me, but I'm leaving.
You can also find a romantic theme there, but it's not as intrusive as other romances. This is what I like.
Some dates, common nights, pub grub, but this is not the main thread of the book.

    There is one more story in this book that appears here at random, but at the end, it turns out that it has much to do with the story of the lost things. One could say that these are just a few of the chapters that are the main message of the book.

   I have to say that I love books that naturally show life. Such as the ordinary, a little experienced by fate and puzzles (because you never know what awaits you around the corner of the room and even home).

    It's one of those books I like to read when it rains outside, then you can brew yourself a "cup of great tea", disappear somewhere in Laura's Victorian home, look at the wonderful roses and inhale their smells, look at the dog lying by the fireplace, where the fire dances happily warming the room.


      I sincerely invite you
            to read
      and take an extraordinary
                   journey!!!