I couldn't tear myself away from this book (I read "Lion" the paperback after the movie version).
Saroo writes very clearly, no fussy adjectives, just paints a picture from his memory of being five years old, all on his own, lost, in Calcutta. Obviously you know he made it out alive because he wrote the book, but I got caught up in his saga because of the incredible turns of luck that he had, and his running commentary from his adult viewpoint that he could have been one of thousands of kids who die on the streets in India.
Next - I'll see the movie!