Incredibly charming. It really was. However…it was charming in the same way that I find Disney’s new releases of actor led classics. If you were to watch the films, they are undeniably delightful, but ultimately you are aware of how Cinderella ends before it even begins. The tale follows Anthony Peardew, a now ageing man who in his youth lost his fiancée tragically the same day he lost her keepsake, and from there on he harbours all lost items he finds with the intention to reunite the objects with their owners. On Anthony’s death this task is passed on to his housekeeper Laura, a woman whose age is potentially alluded to too often, who takes on the task with the aid of Freddy the gardener and Sunshine, a teenage local girl with down syndrome. With a sprinkling of ghostly happenings and Sunshine’s ghostly intuition, the novel of course reaches a happy ever after. The narrative is interwoven with stories explaining the history of the lost objects. First of all, the ...