2016 BOOKS OF THE YEAR DÉBUT FICTION
THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT KATE HAMER FABER & FABER
Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different: sensitive, distracted, with a heartstopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter’s strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own.
THE VERSIONS OF US LAURA BARNETT WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
What if you had said yes . . . ? Eva and Jim are 19 and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine
the rest of their lives. We follow three different versions of their future—together and apart—as their love story takes on different incarnations and twists and turns to the conclusion in the present day. The Versions of Us is an outstand- ing début novel about the choices we make and the different paths that our lives might follow. What if one small decision could change the rest of your life?
When she takes Carmel for an out- ing to a local festival, her worst fear is realised: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable to accept the possibil- ity that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying jour- ney of her own. But do the real clues to Carmel’s disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?
DISCLAIMER RENÉE KNIGHT DOUBLEDAY
When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine’s bedside table, she curls up and begins to read.
But as she turns the pages, she is horrified to realise she is a key character, a main player. This story will reveal her darkest
secret. A secret she thought no one else knew . . .
GREAT BOOKS FROM BRITISH PUBLISHERS
09
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20