Children's book – Der rubinrote Mantel

For her 11th birthday, Livia gets a red coat. It comes from a little antique shop and is a bit old-fashioned, but it fits her perfectly and swings wonderfully when she walks.
With a mysterious power, it makes her take new paths, forget time and place – and finally connects her with the fate of the girl to whom it belonged decades earlier …
Alongside the present of eleven-year-old Livia, diary entries from 1932 bring in the past of eleven-year-old Elin, the coat's original owner. Whether it is really magical powers that lead the coat to Livia and her to its story, however, Katarina Genar leaves open.
The magic lies rather in her storytelling: Exciting, natural and full of warmth, she portrays in little space characters and connections of fate that touch and fascinate.