The Girl in the Red Coat - Hardcover

Hamer, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571313248 ISBN 13: 9780571313242

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2015

Synopsis

BRAND NEW BOOK, HARD COVER WITH DUSTJACKET, UNREAD The Girl In The Red Coat by Kate Hamer "Most convincing and completely compelling. I read through the night, desperate to know the girls fate" Erin Kelly Description of book: 'She is the missing girl. But she doesn't know she's lost.' Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, 8-year-old Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift... While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel embarks on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is - and who she might become. Kate Hamer grew up in the West Country and Wales. She studied art and worked for a number of years in television. In 2011 she won the Rhys Davies short-story prize and her short stories have appeared in various collections. Her debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat was published in 2015. It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, the British Book Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and the Wales Book of the Year. It was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into sixteen different languages. Kate now lives with her husband in Cardiff., Kate Hamer grew up in Pembrokeshire. She did a Creative Writing MA at Aberystwyth University and the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. She won the Rhys Davies short story award in 2011 and her winning story was read out on Radio 4. She has recently been awarded a Literature Wales bursary. She lives in Cardiff with her husband. The Girl in the Red Coat (March 2015) is her first novel. Short-listed for British Book Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year 2016 and Costa First Novel Award 2015.

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Review

Moving, convincing and completely compelling. I read through the night, desperate to know the little girl's fate. (Erin Kelly, author of THE POISON TREE)

Trust us: this book is unlike anything else. (Stylist)

2015's oh-so-chilling thriller breakout. (Grazia)

Unpredictable and moving. (Marie Claire)

Like Emma Donoghue did in ROOM, Hamer starts off with a premise we think we know - an abducted child - and takes the reader somewhere completely unexpected. This is a beautifully written and highly original story that is gripping, thought-provoking and emotionally tender. (Mumsnet 2015 Must Reads)

Thrillers about abducted children are hardly a fresh idea, but Kate Hamer's debut novel may be the most original take on the subject since Ian McEwan's The Child In Time...There is a surreal, fairytale-like quality to this unique and beguiling book. (Sunday Express)

Gripping. (Sunday Express Magazine)

This accomplished and enthralling debut novel follows what happens after the abduction of an eight-year-old girl, Carmel. Told from both her and her mother's points of view, this had me guessing until the very last page. (Fanny Blake, Woman & Home)

The Girl in the Red Coat keeps the reader hooked - and awake into the small hours. (Isabel Berwick, Financial Times)

Told in two very different voice, this debut is moving, tender and tense, exploring love and loss from the view of adult Beth and her otherworldly child in a way that's devastatingly convincing. (Psychologies, Book of the Month)

Book Description

A stand-out debut, THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT is the page-turning and hugely moving story of an abduction that will appeal to fans of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, ROOM and THE SNOW CHILD.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571313248
• ISBN 13: 9780571313242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384