Lost Property - Helen Paris- General fiction

Dot works at TFL lost property office and has done so for more years than she

can care to remember. They keep things for 3 months and get more than

most would imagine through their doors. Who loses an artificial leg, a

grandfather clock and various bits of ephemera? The other part of her life was

caring for her mother who is now in a home and Dot lives in her apartment

having moved in when her mother needed help. Mr Appleby has been to the

lost property office a few times looking for his wifes bag which has not yet

appeared. Dot feels for him and tells him that it's still early days and could

still be handed in, when in reality she knows that there is little hope of it

arriving after all this time. When the bag arrives, Dot makes it her mission

to return it and meanwhile her own life changes.

I loved reading this- it came with a smile and a little side of poignant at

times. Dot is although quiet, in her own way a larger than life character

but hasn’t quite found her way of showing it- perhaps there’s that

something in all of us? One to reflect on one's own childhood and

parentage. Of hope and loss, of joy and tears.  A different read in a

very good way. One life- live it.

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