One of our Books of the Year 2015.
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2015.
A stunningly original debut that weaves a multitude of emotions throughout. Single parent Beth has a hard time keeping her daughter Carmel from randomly wandering off. Then, when Carmel is eight she really does get completely separated from her mother and is taken in by a ‘grandfather’ figure. Naturally one assumes the worst. He tells her that her mother has been hit by a car and is in hospital. He takes her to a derelict house in Wales and eventually tells her her mother is dead. Then he takes her to America and things get very weird. We stay with her and her first-person narrative up until she is thirteen. We see her mother during this period too and after a slow start we race into a gripping ending. The book is beautifully underwritten, intensely moving and very atmospheric. Highly recommended. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2015.
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.
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She is the missing girl. But she doesn't know she's lost.
The Girl in the Red Coat features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Debut Books of the Month, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Girl in the Red Coat was written by Kate Hamer and published by Faber & Faber Fiction an imprint of Faber & Faber
The Girl in the Red Coat has 378 pages
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