The Girl in the Red Coat

Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different – sensitive, distracted, with a heart-stopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter’s strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own.

A stand-out debut novel by Kate Hamer, this is a page-turning, moving story of an abduction. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award.