The Australian debut novel the world is falling in love with is a story to make you laugh, cry and feel a little wiser.<br/><br/>At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty - seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too. <br/><br/>Agatha Pantha is eighty - two and has not left her house since her husband died. She sits behind her front window, hidden by the curtains and ivy, and shouts at passers - by, roaring her anger at complete strangers. Until the day Agatha spies a young girl across the street. <br/><br/>Karl the Touch Typist is eighty - seven when his son kisses him on the cheek before leaving him at the nursing home. As he watches his son leave, Karl has a moment of clarity. He escapes the home and takes off in search of something different. <br/><br/>Three lost people needing to be found. But they don't know it yet. Millie, Agatha and Karl are about to break the rules and discover what living is all about.<br/>