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Hoarders beware, Ruth Hogan’s The Keeper of Lost Things might kindle a fire. The novel begins with aloof but endearing Anthony Peardew, whose lonely existence has been reduced to a quest to atone for a broken promise he made a lifetime ago to his beloved Therese. The aging man hopes to make amends by carefully collecting a pell-mell of forgotten and misplaced objects and trinkets in the hopes of reuniting them someday with their owners. As he feels his health declining, he calls on Laura — his unsuspecting housekeeper-turned-friend — to help him complete his mission. But Laura has her own demons to escape as she finds refuges in Padua, Anthony’s rose-scented home.

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