Daughter - Jane Shemilt

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

While working as a GP, Jane Shemilt completed a postgraduate diploma in Creative Writing at Bristol University and went on to study for the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa, gaining both with distinction. Her first novel, Daughter, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and went on to become the bestselling debut novel of 2014.


She and her husband, a professor of neurosurgery, have five children and live in Bristol.

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