Daughter: The Gripping Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller and Richard & Judy Phenomenon - Softcover

Shemilt, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405915293 ISBN 13: 9781405915298

Publisher: Penguin, 2014

Synopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RUNAWAY RICHARD & JUDY PHENOMENON

There's a stranger in your daughter's room. It's your daughter . . .

Naomi is missing.

Her mother Jenny is desperately searching for answers.

Is finding her the only way to put their family back together?

Or will discovering the truth about Naomi finally tear them apart?

'We absolutely loved this' Richard & Judy Book Club

'Thrilling' Sunday Express

'Taut and thought-provoking' Woman & Home

'Clever' Sun

'Utterly gripping' Mail On Sunday

About this title

Review:

We absolutely loved this book. It's about a GP and her family and the sudden horror that devastates their lives when their 16-year-old daughter disappears one night. It's difficult to believe that this accomplished book is a debut (Judy Finnigan, Richard and Judy book club)

Ostensibly a suspense novel about the disappearance of a teenage girl, this taut and thought-provoking debut novel explores a working mother's guilt, something all-too familiar to many of us (Woman & Home)

Thrilling, yet written with depth and subtlety, and tender insight into parental love (Tessa Hadley)

Complex and baffling. Jane Shemilt builds layer upon layer of tension in a novel you won't be able to put down (TESS GERRITSEN)

Gripping to the last page! (My Weekly)

Thrilling (Sunday Express)

Clever (Sun)

Taut and thought-provoking (Sunday Mirror)

Utterly gripping. A tautly coiled spring of suspicion and suspense which builds to a devastating ending (Mail On Sunday)

A wonderful plot, full of tantalising reasons to read on, and of course with a killer twist at the end. What impressed me most was (. . .) the impossibility of truly knowing those closest to us, the pressures of parenthood - in particular working motherhood, and the terrible loss at the heart of all parenting: they grow up and away (Christopher Wakling, author of What I Did)

From the Back Cover:

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.

But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.

As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet, for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter's disappearance, she's still digging for answers--and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she's trusted, 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 knows she'll never be able to find Naomi unless she uncovers the whole truth about her daughter--a twisting, painful journey into the past that will lead to an almost unthinkable revelation. . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1405915293
• ISBN 13: 9781405915298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416