THE GIRL IN THE ROAD COAT PB – KATE HAMER-KATE HAMER

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark LUCY FOLEY Carmel is missing – but doesn t know she s lost. When sensitive, distracted eight-year-old Carmel becomes separated from her mother at a local children s festival, a man claiming to be her estranged grandfather finds her – and takes her. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth makes it her mission to find her. But in what she s told is her new family, Carmel has embarked on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is – and who she might become. Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip . . . What s most powerful here is not whodunnit, or even why, but how this mother and daughter bear their separation. CELESTE NG **Carmel and Beth s story continues in The Lost Girls – pre-order now!**