Summary: On Ruby’s thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn’t even know she had
suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren’t her parents at all. Her
real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to
find them.
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.
Angie’s comments: The book is beautiful and eerie, with hints of the supernatural.
The emotions of the characters are intense as they find their way through life.
It includes themes of death, friends, family, loss, grief, and mental issues,
but in the end, it is about love.
Recommended for readers of literary novels.
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March 12, 2018
The Doll Funeral
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