Crushed (eBook)

Kate Hamer (Autor)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
416 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-33668-5 (ISBN)

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'Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark - and so good on the complex and thorny bond between friends. Kate Hamer's writing is incandescent.' Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party Phoebe stands on Pulteney Bridge, tights gashed from toe to thigh. The shock of mangled metal and blood-stained walls flashes through her mind as she tries to cover her face so she won't be recognised. It wouldn't do to be spotted looking like this. She's missing a shoe. She feels sick. Phoebe thought murder and murder happened. Thoughts are just thoughts, they said. Now she knows they were wrong. At home, Phoebe arranges the scissors and knives so they point toward her mother's room. She is exhausted, making sure there's no trace of herself - not a single hair, not even her scent - left anywhere in the house. She must not let her thoughts unravel, because if they do, there's no telling who might be caught in the crossfire, and Phoebe will have to live with the consequences.

Kate Hamer grew up in the West Country and Wales. She studied art and worked for a number of years in television. In 2011 she won the Rhys Davies short-story prize and her short stories have appeared in various collections. Her debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat was published in 2015. It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, the British Book Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and the Wales Book of the Year. It was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into sixteen different languages. Kate now lives with her husband in Cardiff., 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 in the Red Coat (March 2015) is her first novel.

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Kate Hamer's beautiful and often magical writing examines with a deep understanding what it's like to be on the cusp of womanhood. Suffused with the brooding bloody manipulations of the witches in Macbeth the three girls are the beating heart of this turbulent tale and my heart broke for them all. Their stories pull you through, willing them to strive and overcome and I could not put it down until their tales were done. I absolutely loved it

It's impossible not to be impressed with Kate Hamer's expert control of language. There are whole passages of interior monologue that are worthy of being called prose poems.

An exploration of the dark heart of female adolescence that makes good use of its Bath setting.

I was captivated by this wonderful story of three girls reaching adulthood - and the dark magic of their obsessive friendship, which spirals out of control as their handsome English teacher introduces them to Macbeth's three witches. An atmospheric and enchantingly dark read as the girls find their power; both real and imagined. I loved it.

Captivating.

Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark - and so good on the complex and thorny bond between friends. Kate Hamer's writing is incandescent.

As intense as it is deep, as disturbing as it is surprising. Kate Hamer's enchanted writing is sure to put you under its own spell, which will linger long after you've turned the final page

I loved this book. A dark and haunting tale, beautifully drawn. Kate Hamer has a gift for story-telling and I think this may be her best yet.

Hypnotic and dark, told with an almost hyper-reality of observation that draws you utterly into this one summer and three girls. It is bewitching, intense and immersive.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Acid • Bath • girl in the red coat • LSD • Lucy Foley • mothers and daughters • Murder • OCD • roman baths • Spinney
• ISBN-10: 0-571-33668-X / 057133668X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33668-5 / 9780571336685