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He is my miracle says Sarah Frost Mellor s protagonist of her lover Joe Found by accident in the least likely of places Sarah won the 2012 Cheshire Prize for Literature with her short story Udumbara in Lytham St Anne s and it s in this modest seaside town that Lost and Found begins Reading through the stories in this collection the reader will find many things surreal flotsam on a desolate beach a love letter mislaid for decades turns of phrase in a classroom relationships shaped in unusual settings But to find something means simultaneously to acknowledge the possibility of loss And loss figures largely in the anthology too from beloved relatives to despised spouses and from inconsequential objects to an individual s very sense of self life s losses are portrayed here in a variety of humorous dark and frequently surprising ways Lost and Foundshort stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2012 Lost and Found is a typically strong collection of stories from a series of prize anthologies that I ve come to rely on as always entertaining and well written There are several themes running through the book not just of lost and found butchers including my own story Butcher s Grass and moving house are just two that struck me With a wide range of topics and genre on show there s something for all readers in this collection but there are a few I ve marked out as personal favourites The Adventures of Him and Her by Hannah Riordan is a nicely subtle exploration of an unlikely friendship and maybe that shows just how we only really miss something when it s gone The Inheritance by Sophie Green is a family tree in story form sweet whimsical and tragic with an ending that I can t decide if it s sad or hopeful Dangerous Tuesday a love story by Angela Williams I found terribly sad but so beautifully written and vivid that I was hooked immediately Mr Mystery s Lion by Clare Kirwan is a strange and disturbing little tale about children performing on stage written with effective restraint Panada by Tanya D Ravenswater is a darkly comic slightly grotesque and ultimately rather satisfying peek into the lives of a close knit family who rely on their matriarch for everything There s to Elizabeth Brassington s post war butcher s shop in Blood flies upwards than first meets the eye and finally Tighten the cord around his neck by Andrew Bogle tells the familiar story of the Lindow Man from a very different perspective English