Do you ever see a person or persons and in your head make up a story about them. I remember when my husband and I were first married we were walking hand in hand in New York City. We found ourselves walking behind this beautiful older couple. They must have been in there late 70's.
They too were holding hands and I turned to my husband and said, "Do you think we will be like them when we are their age?" We hoped we would be. I then started thinking, how did they meet, did they have children, were they even married or had they just found each other and all these stories about them started forming in my head. We are not their age yet so who knows whether that will be us but I hope so.
This book reminded me of that moment . One of the characters in the book was given a piece of jewelry by his Fiancée, something that meant a lot to her. Ironically she died the day she gave it to him and he lost it.
From that day forward he picked up and cataloged items he found and became The Keeper of Lost Things He was an author and so he wrote short stories about the lost items many of which were published.
He always meant to try and return the items but died leaving the job to be done by his assistant. As it turns out she was one of his "lost things". She makes it her mission to find the owners of the lost things and finds herself along the way. It is a very nice story.
