Inhalt: ""[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan. an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free." -- The Guardian On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend--the imaginary Shadow Boy--Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and while they offer the closest Ruby's ever had to a family, Ruby begins to suspect that they might need her even more than she needs them. And it's not always clear what's real and what's not--or who's trying to help her and who might be a threat. Told from shifting timelines, and the alternating perspectives of teenage Ruby; her mother, Anna; and even the Shadow Boy, The Doll Funeral is a dazzling follow-up to Kate Hamer's breakout debut, The Girl in the Red Coat, and a gripping, exquisitely mysterious novel about the connections that remain after a family has been broken apart"-- Umfang: 320 S. ISBN: 978-1-61219-666-4
Inhalt: ? An Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2016 ? Costa Book Award for First Novel finalist ? Dagger Award finalist Newly single mom Beth has one constant, gnawing worry: that her dreamy eight-year-old daughter, Carmel, who has a tendency to wander off, will one day go missing. And then one day, it happens: On a Saturday morning thick with fog, Beth takes Carmel to a local outdoor festival, they get separated in the crowd, and Carmel is gone. Shattered, Beth sets herself on the grim and lonely mission to find her daughter, keeping on relentlessly even as the authorities tell her that Carmel may be gone for good. Carmel, meanwhile, is on a strange and harrowing journey of her own-to a totally unexpected place that requires her to live by her wits, while trying desperately to keep in her head, at all times, a vision of her mother ... Alternating between Beth's story and Carmel's, and written in gripping prose that won't let go, The Girl in the Red Coat-like Emma Donoghue's Room and M. L. Stedman's The Light Between Oceans-is an utterly immersive story that's impossible to put down . . . and impossible to forget. "Kate Hamer's gripping debut novel immediately recalls the explosion of similarly titled books and movies, from Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, to The Girl on the Train to Gone Girl ... "-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "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, and the stories they tell themselves to help endure it." -Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You) "Compulsively readable...Beautifully written and unpredictable, I had to stop myself racing to the end to find out what happened." -Rosamund Lupton (Sister) "Both gripping and sensitive - beautifully written, it is a compulsive, aching story full of loss and redemption." -Lisa Ballantyne (The Guilty One) "Hamer's dark tale of the lost and found is nearly impossible to put down." -Booklist Umfang: 384 S. ISBN: 978-1-61219-501-8
Inhalt: Die alleinerziehende Beth besucht mit ihrer 8-jährigen Tochter Carmel ein Geschichtenfestival. Dort verliert sie die Kleine aus den Augen. Das Mädchen bleibt spurlos verschwunden. Jahrelang sucht Beth nach ihrer Tochter und gibt die Hoffnung nie auf. Systematik: $L Umfang: 416 S. Standort: $L Hamer ISBN: 978-3-7160-2724-0
Inhalt: Die alleinerziehende Beth besucht mit ihrer 8-jährigen Tochter Carmel ein Geschichtenfestival. Dort verliert sie die Kleine aus den Augen. Das Mädchen bleibt spurlos verschwunden. Jahrelang sucht Beth nach ihrer Tochter und gibt die Hoffnung nie auf. Schlagworte:Hörspiel Systematik: °e-hör Umfang: 4 CD Standort: °e-hör Hamer ISBN: 978-3-8337-3378-9
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