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The dark and glittering new novel from The Sunday Times Bestselling author Kate Hamer is as gripping as it is gorgeously written – the perfect second book from the author of The Girl in the Red Coat.
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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571313860
Date Published
04.01.2018
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Summary
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.
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. Or that I’m a hunter for lost souls.
I’m going to be with my real family. And I won’t let anyone stop me.
Critic Reviews
Unique and beautiful . . . a haunting, mesmerising read.
Rosamund Lupton, author of 'Sister'
Critic Reviews
Hamer’s brilliant storytelling made me read on for fear Ruby’s fate depended on it.
Grazia
Critic Reviews
Like her bestselling debut The Girl In the Red Coat, in The Doll Funeral Hamer again excels in weaving a story around a girl who’s not quite of this world . . . A slow-burning beauty of a book.
Red Magazine
Critic Reviews
The tremendous momentum of the story gathers pace with every page, hooking you into its strangeness and keeping you hooked to the very last word.
Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times
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An elegiac and uplifting novel.
Guardian
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Hamer writes with great skill and emotional depth – about the confusions of adolescence and identity, the bond between mothers and daughters and the redemptive power of love.
Observer
KateHamer
Kate Hamer grew up in Pembrokeshire. She did a Creative Writing MA at Aberystwyth University and the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. She won the Rhys Davies short story award in 2011 and her winning story was read out on Radio 4. She has recently been awarded a Literature Wales bursary. She lives in Cardiff with her husband. The Girl…
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