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Daughter

The Gripping Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller and Richard & Judy Phenomenon

Jane Shemilt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:28th Aug '14

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Is finding the truth about Naomi the only way to put them back together?

When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RUNAWAY RICHARD & JUDY PHENOMENON

Her daughter has gone missing. But did she ever really know her . . .

'Thrilling' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Completely unputdownable' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Utterly gripping' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Unforgettable' 5***** READER REVIEW
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Naomi is missing.


Her mother Jenny is desperately searching for answers.

But the traces of Naomi's existence reveal a very different girl to the one Jenny thought she'd raised.

The more she looks, the more she learns that everyone she trusted has been keeping secrets . . .

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

Or will discovering the truth about Naomi finally tear them apart?
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'We absolutely loved this' RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB

'Taut and thought-provoking' WOMAN & HOME

'Clever'SUN

It is gripping and full of emotion . . . yet the twist at the end makes you question your assumptions, and really makes you think about the nature of a mother-daughter relationship and how different it can be from each side of the coin * Jessica Eames, author of Bad Seed *
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 *

ISBN: 9781405915298

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm

Weight: 287g

416 pages