The Girl In The Red Coat by Kate Hamer

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Kate Hamer
• Title: The Girl In The Red Coat
• Publisher: ‎ Melville House; First Melville House Printing (February 16, 2016)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 324 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1612195008
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1612195001
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.15 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.3 x 1.1 x 9.3 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good – Mylar Library Dust Jacket
• Edition: First American Edition

Synopsis:

"Immediately recalls the explosion of similarly titled books and movies, from Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels to The Girl on the Train to Gone Girl … "—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

 

Newly single mom Beth has one constant, gnawing worry: that her dreamy eight-year-old daughter, Carmel, who has a tendency to wander off, will one day go missing.

 

And then one day, it happens: On a Saturday morning thick with fog, Beth takes Carmel to a local outdoor festival, they get separated in the crowd, and Carmel is gone.

 

Shattered, Beth sets herself on the grim and lonely mission of finding her daughter, keeping on relentlessly even as the authorities tell her that Carmel may be gone for good.

 

Carmel, meanwhile, is on a strange and harrowing journey of her own—to a totally unexpected place that requires her to live by her wits, while trying desperately to keep in her head, at all times, a vision of her mother…

 

Alternating between Beth’s story and Carmel’s, and written in gripping prose that won’t let go, The Girl in the Red Coat is an utterly immersive story that’s impossible to put down…and impossible to forget.

About the Author:

Kate Hamer is the author of CRUSHED (2019) THE DOLL FUNERAL (2017) which was a Bookseller book of the month and an editor's pick for Radio 4's Open Book.

Her first novel THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT (Faber & Faber, 2015) was shortlisted for The Costa First Novel Prize, the British Book Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger and the Wales Book of the Year. It was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into 18 different languages.

Kate grew up in the West country and rural Pembrokeshire and now lives with her husband in Cardiff.