The Girl in the Red Coat

ISBN: 161219561X

Author: Hamer, Kate

Condition: New

"Immediately recalls the explosion of similarly titled books and movies, from Stieg Larssons The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels to The Girl on the Train to Gone Girl "-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesNewly 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 motherAlternating between Beths story and Carmels, and written in gripping prose that wont let go, The Girl in the Red Coat is an utterly immersive story thats impossible to put downand impossible to forget.