The Doll Funeral, Kate Hamer
The Doll Funeral, Kate Hamer
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The Doll Funeral

Author: Kate Hamer

Narrator: Emma Powell, Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Kate Hamer

Kate Hamer is the author of The Girl in the Red Coat, which was a Costa First Novel Award finalist, a Dagger Award finalist, an Amazon Best Book of the Year 2016 and a winner of the ELLE Lettres Readers' Prize. She lives in Cardiff, Wales, with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne

On Ruby’s thirteenth birthday her parents inform her that she was adopted. For most people this would be devastating news but for Ruby it’s a relief since she has no affection for her parents. Her father Mick is physically and verbally abusive and her mother Barbara turns a blind eye to his transgre......more

Goodreads review by Dannii

I received a copy of this in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the author, Kate Hamer, and the publisher, Faber & Faber, for this opportunity. I had expected a thriller and instead this split-perspective tale was as bizarre as it was whimsical and otherwordly. Usually meandering tales, with......more

Goodreads review by Lucy

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review. Weird, meandering, but thoroughly compelling to read. I haven't read anything by Kate Harmer before, though of course, had heard of her previous book The Girl in the Red Dress, so I had high hopes. However, I wasn't at al......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

The Doll Funeral was a novel that attempted to be a great many things, and proceeded to be none of them with great aplomb. It had the potential to be a touchingly deep story about domestic abuse and the difficulties of coping with adoption, both as the adopters and the adoptees, but instead it got b......more