The Girl in the Red Coat The Girl in the Red Coat

The Girl in the Red Coat

    • 3.8 • 56 Ratings
    • £5.49
    • £5.49

Publisher Description

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award


'Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark' LUCY FOLEY

Carmel is missing - but doesn't know she's lost.

When sensitive, distracted eight-year-old Carmel becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, a man claiming to be her estranged grandfather finds her - and takes her.

Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth makes it her mission to find her. But in what she's told is her new family, Carmel has embarked on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is - and who she might become.
'Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip . . . What's most powerful here is not whodunnit, or even why, but how this mother and daughter bear their separation.' CELESTE NG
**Carmel and Beth's story continues in The Lost Girls - pre-order now!**

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
24 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Faber & Faber
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Leeds mum ,

The girl loves her red coats

The Girl in the Red Coat is about a young girl Carmel who disappears when her mother Beth takes her to a children's festival. It alternates between Beth's story and Carmel's.

The book shows the stress of a parent losing a child and a child's implicit trust in adults.

It's not a thriller per se more of a suspense drama. I wanted to keep reading to find out whether Carmel makes it back to Beth and how long it takes if she does. I felt for both characters showing the book is well written. I can see this doing well as a TV adaptation.

A solid debut from Kate Hamer. I look forward to future reads.

I received a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

TheobscureDr ,

Nothing here to tax the grey matter

I usually abandon a book at the first grammatical/proofreading error but, had I done so with this book, I would have missed the second howler. I’ve always considered Faber a more discerning, more literary publisher, however this was very disappointing. My biggest regret - continuing to the end, to be left with the dissatisfaction of plotting loose ends, unexplained storylines, and guilt at time wasted.

Laing-loo ,

The girl in the red coat

So compelling, heart wrenching, could not leave it down. So pleased there was no brutality or neglect written into this brilliantly thought out story.
I would recommended it to a friend (as it was recommended to me)

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