The Daughter - Softcover

Shemilt, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062370065 ISBN 13: 9780062370068

Publisher: Harper Large Print, 2015

Synopsis

A mother driven to the brink by uncertainty . . . A family that was never quite as perfect as it seemed.Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three teenagers, married to her loving husband, Ted, a neurosurgeon. But when her youngest, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, the seemingly ideal life Jenny has built begins to crumble. The authorities launch an investigation, but Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.As the months pass, the trail goes cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year later, she's still digging for answers--and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she thought she knew has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she'd raised.Jenny must uncover the whole truth about her daughter--a twisting, painful journey into the past that will lead to an almost unthinkable revelation . . .

About this title

Review:

"Shemilt injects a great deal of suspense into her narrative in both time frames, even as her fluid prose eloquently captures a mother's grief and painful journey to self-awareness."--Booklist

"Jenny is a strong believable character...[her] journey is a memorable one."--Publishers Weekly

"It's every mother's nightmare: the disappearance of a child. But in The Daughter, what appears to be a simple abduction soon turns into something far more complex and baffling. Jane Shemilt builds layer upon layer of tension in a thriller you won't be able to put down."--Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of Last to Die

About the Author:

While working full time as a physician, Jane Shemilt received an M.A. in creative writing. She was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for The Daughter, her first novel. She and her husband, a professor of neurosurgery, have five children and live in Bristol, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Large Print
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062370065
• ISBN 13: 9780062370068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496