What Was Lost Was Lost" was the winner in the first novel category of the Costa Book Awards. O'Flynn received a £5,000 prize. It was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. The Costa Book Awards' judging panel, chaired by Joanna Trollope, praised the novel for "blending humour and pathos in a cleverly constructed and absorbing mystery." They described the novel as inventive, compelling, and poignant. "What Was Lost" was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. It was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. It won the Jelf Group First Novel Award
P. H. B. Lyon Bureau to find jobs for ex-public school boys. In 1918 he published a volume of poetry, "Songs of Youth & War", and in 1923 "Turn Fortune". In 1931 a selection of his verse was published as "P. H. B. Lyon" in the Augustan Books of Poetry series. Poems by Lyon were anthologized in the following collections: P. H. B. Lyon Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon MC (1893–1986) was a 20th-century British poet and educator, a winner of the Newdigate Prize and headmaster of Rugby School from 1931 to 1948. Lyon studied at Oriel College, Oxford, publishing a number of lyrics in