The Lost Girls

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Lost, she narrowly escaped disaster.
Beth is desperate to return to normality. After a five-year ordeal, her daughteris finally home. But Carmel has questions she can't ignore about the cult thatkidnapped her, and about the preacher who gave her another girl's name.


Found, she must survive a miracle.


Digging into her past, Carmel uncovers secrets which suggest that she wasn'tthe only lost girl - and which put her in danger all over again. While hermother struggles to salvage the safety they've only just found, Carmel triesto come to terms with who she has become. But she remains haunted by themystery at the heart of her disappearance as a child:


What happened to the other lost girls

Author Bio

Kate Hamer grew up in the West Country and Wales. Shestudied art and worked for a number of years in television.In 2011 she won the Rhys Davies short-story prize and hershort stories have appeared in various collections. Her debutnovel The Girl in the Red Coat was published in 2015. Itwas shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, the BritishBook Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, theJohn Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and the Wales Book ofthe Year. It was followed by the acclaimed The Doll Funeralin 2017. Kate now lives with her husband in Cardiff.