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    Kate Hamer crafts narratives that delve into the complexities of human relationships and the hidden dimensions of childhood. Her prose, often set against evocative rural backdrops, explores themes of lost innocence and the yearning for connection. Hamer masterfully uncovers the inner lives of her characters, weaving stories that are both fragile and resilient. Her work resonates with readers for its emotional depth and insightful portrayal of the human psyche.

    Kate Hamer
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    The Lost Girls
    The Girl in the Red Coat

    • The Girl in the Red Coat

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.5(13342)Add rating

      Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different - sensitive, distracted, with an heartstopping 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. When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival, her worst fear is realised: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own. But do the real clues to Carmel's disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?

      The Girl in the Red Coat

    • The Lost Girls

      3.3(389)Add rating

      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?

      The Lost Girls

    • Crushed

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      3.1(50)Add rating

      Phoebe stands on Pulteney Bridge, tights gashed from toe to thigh. The shock of mangled metal and blood-stained walls flashes through her mind as she tries to cover her face so she won't be recognised. It wouldn't do to be spotted looking like this. She's missing a shoe. She feels sick. Phoebe thought murder and murder happened. Thoughts are just thoughts, they said. Now she knows they were wrong. At home, Phoebe arranges the scissors and knives so they point toward her mother's room. She is exhausted, making sure there's no trace of herself - not a single hair, not even her scent - left anywhere in the house. She must not let her thoughts unravel, because if they do, there's no telling who might be caught in the crossfire, and Phoebe will have to live with the consequences.

      Crushed