In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen McLeod

First published in 2008 by Vintage this Betty Trask Award winning novel; a humorous LGBTQI+ coming of age story, is available for the first time in 17 years...
 
Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he is a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie misses Sally, her former lover, who has gone off with a man with a fat neck. She starts to stalk Sally, collecting bathroom fluff, dust and pubes from Sally's bed - all the things that prove that somewhere life is taking place without her.
 
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'TREMENDOUS! Such a mix of hilarious and poetic and delicate and tough ... WONDERFUL'. - Ali Smith 
 
'A marvellous debut: QUIRKY, HONEST,FUNNY and SAD. I LOVED IT.' - Sarah Waters
 
'Combines sitcom-style farce with movingly understated heartache.' - Guardian 
 
'Both comic and moving as it explores ideas of self, of gender, identification and loneliness'.' - Observer