Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura. But the final wishes of the "Keeper of Lost Things" have unforeseen repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encounters... A charming fairy tale and a novel of lost objects and second chances.