The Lost Girls
Feb. 2023 · Faber & Faber
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'Beautifully written, intense.' LISA BALLANTYNE
'A thrilling, emotive and heartfelt mystery.' CHRIS WHITAKER
FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING DEBUT THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT
Lost, she narrowly escaped disaster.
Beth is desperate to return to normality. After a years-long ordeal, her daughter is finally home and safe. But Carmel has questions she can't ignore about the cult that kidnapped her, and about the preacher who gave her another girl's name.
Found, she must survive a miracle.
Digging into her past, Carmel uncovers secrets which suggest that she wasn't the only lost girl - and which puts her in danger all over again. While her mother struggles to salvage the safety they've only just found, Carmel tries to come to terms with who she has become. One question, a mystery at the heart of her disappearance as a child, haunts her:
What happened to the other lost girls?
'As affirming as it is devastating.' CAILEAN STEED
'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEY
'As ever, Kate's prose is beautiful and immersive.' REBECCA WHITNEY
Praise for Kate Hamer:
'Deliciously dark.' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip.' CELESTE NG
'Her writing is as vivid, nasty and beautiful as a bruise.' METRO
**Read the start of Carmel and Beth's story in The Girl in the Red Coat - available now!**
'A thrilling, emotive and heartfelt mystery.' CHRIS WHITAKER
FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING DEBUT THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT
Lost, she narrowly escaped disaster.
Beth is desperate to return to normality. After a years-long ordeal, her daughter is finally home and safe. But Carmel has questions she can't ignore about the cult that kidnapped her, and about the preacher who gave her another girl's name.
Found, she must survive a miracle.
Digging into her past, Carmel uncovers secrets which suggest that she wasn't the only lost girl - and which puts her in danger all over again. While her mother struggles to salvage the safety they've only just found, Carmel tries to come to terms with who she has become. One question, a mystery at the heart of her disappearance as a child, haunts her:
What happened to the other lost girls?
'As affirming as it is devastating.' CAILEAN STEED
'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEY
'As ever, Kate's prose is beautiful and immersive.' REBECCA WHITNEY
Praise for Kate Hamer:
'Deliciously dark.' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip.' CELESTE NG
'Her writing is as vivid, nasty and beautiful as a bruise.' METRO
**Read the start of Carmel and Beth's story in The Girl in the Red Coat - available now!**
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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 followed by the acclaimed The Doll Funeral in 2017 and Crushed in 2019. Kate now lives with her husband in Cardiff.
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