Previous SFF Author: Barbara Hambly
Kate Hamer grew up Pembrokeshire and has written stories ever since she could hold a pencil. She studied art in university and then worked in television for over ten years — mostly on documentaries. She studied creative writing at Aberystwyth University and won a prize there for the ‘best beginning to a novel’ — the book that went on to be ‘The Girl in the Red Coat.’
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The Girl In The Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Any mother’s worst nightmare is losing her child. We’ve all heard it before. It’s a phrase used often, almost casually, yet it doesn’t even begin to cover what it must actually feel like to lose a child. This is precisely what happens in Kate Hamer’s dazzling debut. Told from the perspectives of a bereft mother and her abducted daughter, The Girl in the Red Coat has two of the most hauntingly distinctive voices in fiction so far this year.
Ray McKenzie´s rating: 4 | Kate Hamer | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Previous SFF Author: Barbara Hambly
Pretty challenging book. Cut by half, speed up the cadence. Trying to figure out the plot, the main point of…
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…