Everything Lost, Everything Found by Matthew Hooton
2025 Longlist - Adult Category
About Matthew Hooton
Matthew Hooton is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Deloume Road and Typhoon Kingdom, and has written short stories and essays for publications around the world. He holds degrees in creative writing from the University of Victoria in Canada, Bath Spa University in the UK, and the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film, and an early-career researcher at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.
About Everything Lost, Everything Found
In 1929, young Jack travels with his parents to Henry Ford's rubber-tree plantation in the Brazilian Amazon. In this lushly beautiful but dangerous place, he loses his much-loved mother to a horrific accident. This has terrible repercussions for his family, and Jack is eventually forced into the jungle to search for his absent father.
Seven decades later, living in the heart of Michigan's rust belt on the cusp of a new millennium, Jack faces the challenges of old age, including the gradual loss of his wife of fifty years, whose memory is disappearing even as Jack's own memories insistently resurface to invade and colonise his present.
Everything Lost, Everything Found, from master storyteller Matthew Hooton, is haunting, tender and poignant, a rich and emotional novel about loss, grief and memory, and how the past never truly leaves us.
