Kate Hamer

She is the missing girl. But she doesn't know she's lost.Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, 8-year-old Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift...While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel embarks on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is - and who she might become.

The Girl in the Red Coat

My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me what to do, and what to say. I'm supposed to say that the bruises on my arms and the black eye came from falling down the stairs. But there are things I won't say. I won't tell them I'm going to hunt for my real parents. I don't say a word about Shadow, who sits on the stairs, or the Wasp Lady I saw on the way to bed. I did tell Mick that I saw the woman in the buttercup dress, hanging upside down from her seat belt deep in the forest at the back of our house. I told him I saw death crawl out of her. He said he'd give me a medal for lying. I wasn't lying. I'm a hunter for lost souls and I'm going to be with my real family. And I'm not going to let Mick stop me.

The Doll Funeral

In 1983 zoekt de 13-jarige Ruby haar biologische ouders, met hulp van geesten en door hulp aan drie verwaarloosde kinderen in een bos in het zuiden van Engeland.

Wat is waarheid, en wat niet?

Het meisje in het bos

Phoebe stands on Pultenay Bridge trying to cover her face with her hair so she won't be recognized. Her tights are gashed from toe to thigh. She has lost a shoe. People keep looking. Was it five, or ten minutes later she heard the commotion? Phoebe ran down the road until she saw. Mangled metal. Blood ran down the walls. Phoebe believes this was of her making. She thought murder, and murder happened. She had told them her thoughts weren't just thoughts and now she must live with the consequences. Phoebe won't miss any more signs. Who will be next to suffer? Phoebe directs her ire at her mother, scissors and knives all covertly pointing in her direction, but there are others to whom she is inexorably bound, her best friends Grace and Orla, and then there's Mr Jonasson. Any of them might find themselves caught in the crossfire. For Phoebe is many things, but she is not in control.

Crush

Het meisje in de rode jas

'Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark - and so good on the complex and thorny bond between friends. Kate Hamer's writing is incandescent.' Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party 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

Het vervolg op de bestseller Het meisje in de rode jas Na een zenuwslopende periode in haar leven wil Beth wanhopig graag terugkeren naar hoe het vroeger was. Jaren geleden werd haar dochter Carmel ontvoerd, en ze bleef lange tijd vermist. Nu is Carmel weliswaar veilig thuis, maar de psychische schade die ze heeft opgelopen is minder makkelijk op te lossen. Moeder en dochter worstelen met de vragen die Carmel heeft, over de sekte die haar ontvoerde en de priester die haar een andere naam gaf. Vragen die ze niet kunnen loslaten. Carmel duikt steeds dieper in haar traumatische verleden en ontdekt geheimen die haar opnieuw in gevaar brengen, én die suggereren dat zij niet het enige vermiste meisje was. Terwijl haar moeder vecht om de net gevonden veiligheid te waarborgen, probeert Carmel uit te vinden wie ze is geworden. Eén vraag, één mysterie dat de kern is van haar ontvoering blijft haar achtervolgen: waar zijn de andere verdwenen meisjes? In de pers ‘Een realistisch beeld van de relatie tussen moeder en dochter, vooral omdat de schrijfster het perspectief afwisselend bij Beth en Carmel legt.’ Vrij Nederland ‘Kate Hamer weet je vanaf het begin te raken en te boeien. Begin je eenmaal aan dit boek, dan moet het zo snel mogelijk uit.’ Vrouwenthrillers.nl ‘Een boek dat je niet kunt wegleggen. Kate Hamer weeft een verontrustend en origineel verhaal. Er zit dreiging in het boek, het broeit op elke pagina in de schaduw, maar er is ook onschuld, liefde en hoop.’ Rosamund Lupton, auteur van Zusje

Thuiskomen was nog maar het begin

De verdwenen meisjes

James Hannah

Tim Glencross

They tie our lives together. The only way to learn them is by getting them wrong. But just because they're not written down doesn't mean you won't be judged by them. Welcome to the anthology of stories where hidden forces are at play. Welcome to The Book of Unwritten Rules... would you have known them? The authors met on the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course in 2011. This is their first short-story collection.

The Book of Unwritten Rules

Η Κάρμελ πάντα ήταν διαφορετική. Η μητέρα της η Μπεθ, προσφάτως χωρισμένη, αγωνιά για την ιδιομορφία της κόρης της, καθώς προσπαθεί να ξαναχτίσει τη ζωή τους. Όταν πάνε με τη μικρή σε ένα τοπικό φεστιβάλ αφήγησης, ο χειρότερος φόβος της Μπεθ θα γίνει πραγματικότητα. Η Κάρμελ εξαφανίζεται. Η Μπεθ δεν μπορεί να δεχθεί το ενδεχόμενο ότι η κόρη της έχει χαθεί για πάντα και αγωνίζεται για την ανεύρεσή της. Στο μεταξύ η Κάρμελ ξεκινά ένα ταξίδι τόσο απίστευτο όσο και τρομακτικό στο πλευρό ενός άντρα που θα την εκμεταλλευτεί ως παιδί-θαύμα με θεραπευτικές ικανότητες.

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