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By Kate Hamer
[b][b][b] [/b] • Costa e-book Award for First Novel finalist
• Dagger Award finalist[/b]
"Kate Hamer’s gripping debut novel immediately remembers the explosion of equally titled books and flicks, from Stieg Larsson’s The woman With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, to The woman at the Train to Gone Girl … "—Michiko Kakutani, The ny Times
“Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip... What’s strongest this is now not whodunnit, or perhaps why, yet how this mom and daughter endure their separation, and the tales they inform themselves to aid undergo it.” —Celeste Ng (Everything I by no means instructed You)
“Compulsively readable...Beautifully written and unpredictable, I needed to cease myself racing to the tip to determine what happened.” —Rosamund Lupton (Sister) [b]
“Both gripping and delicate — superbly written, it's a compulsive, aching tale choked with loss and redemption.” —Lisa Ballantyne (The accountable One)
[b]"Hamer’s darkish story of the misplaced and located is almost most unlikely to place down.” —Booklist
Newly unmarried mother Beth has one consistent, gnawing fear: that her dreamy eight-year-old daughter, Carmel, who tends to get lost, will someday cross missing.
And then sooner or later, it occurs: On a Saturday morning thick with fog, Beth takes Carmel to a neighborhood open air pageant, they get separated within the crowd, and Carmel is gone.
Shattered, Beth units herself at the grim and lonely project to discover her daughter, preserving on relentlessly at the same time the gurus inform her that Carmel can be long gone for good.
Carmel, in the meantime, is on an odd and harrowing trip of her own—to a unconditionally unforeseen position that calls for her to dwell by way of her wits, whereas making an attempt desperately to maintain in her head, continually, a imaginative and prescient of her mom …
Alternating among Beth’s tale and Carmel’s, and written in gripping prose that won’t allow move, the lady within the pink Coat—like Emma Donoghue’s Room and M. L. Stedman’s the sunshine among Oceans—is an totally immersive tale that’s impossible to place down . . . and very unlikely to fail to remember.
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How about you? ’ ‘No one settles in London. ’ I smiled at that, just about stopped a blush. That’s how I had met Laura, trying to build up police sources, drinking in the pubs where the police hung out. I’d spotted Laura on the edge of a group of detectives. When it was her turn to buy the drinks, I got talking. I’d tried the flirt at first, we were around the same age, but I got nowhere. She had a husband and a child, and she wasn’t going to risk any of that. So I gave it to her straight. If she wanted her cases to make the news, if she wanted to have some control over how they were told, she ought to use me.
She put her head back, began to moan. She glanced over at Ben. His eyes were wild, his breaths trying hard to keep up, the gag making his face go red. Her ears still rang from the shots. The first shot had bounced around the room until it seemed to come back at itself. Then the second shot had filled her head, and she knew from the way the buyer relaxed that what had needed doing was done. Sophie began to sob, could feel herself shaking, her head back. All she could see now was the ceiling, brilliant white, flashes of blue getting brighter as the noise of sirens came in through the open window.
Henri Dumas looked around and checked his watch, a TAG Heuer. Five more minutes and then he was gone. He saw people looking at him. He shuffled nervously. He knew he shouldn’t be doing this. Some kids across the road were staring at him, pushing each other, egging on one of their number to speak to him. He checked his watch again. The kids started walking over the road, one of them being pushed to the front, camera in hand. Shit. Not what he needed. He pulled out his phone. The crowds didn’t hear the crack of the rifle.