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