The Girl in the Red Coat
Feb 2015 · Faber & Faber
4.2star
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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!**
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!**
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4.2
63 reviews
Catherine E Rose
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February 23, 2016
From the first page, this book turned out to be one in the category of being impossible to put down. Well crafted, the two narrator perspective of Carmel and her mother Beth works perfectly in present and past tense and the book is a joy to read with its beautifully poetic, perceptive description and observations. My only criticism (and the reason it didn't get the full five stars) was that it ends rather abruptly leaving the reader with a little void of unanswered questions.
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Jennifer Walsh
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July 25, 2016
A very silly book at times with no real plot development...it just plodded along. Characters were lacking development...think the author was as bored writing it in the end as I was reading it.
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Fasiha Basha
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August 25, 2019
The book was good but definitely not my time. I think the author dragged the story a lot..
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