The Secret of Lost Things
Sheridan Hay2007

Eighteen-year-old Rosemary Savage has a scrapbook of cities and a passion for novels. When her beloved mother dies and the family hat business is sold, she decides to leave her home in Tasmania for glittering spires of New York Cities and a fresh start on her own.
Soon after her arrival, Rosemary stumbles across the Arcade, a sprawling, ramshackle bookshop housing teetering piles of rare and used books, and staffed by a bunch of eccentric individuals. She's offered a job as a general helper, and is soon thoroughly immersed in the bookshop's way of life. But when she becomes assistant to albino store manager Walter Geist, she unwittingly stumbles across a major literary cover-up - and realises that at this particular bookshop, words are money and deception is power...

Titre original : The Secret of Lost Things (2007)