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The Daughter

By: Jane Shemilt
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
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Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, 15-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.

©2014 Jane Shemilt (P)2015 Tantor

Critic reviews

"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)

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It's was ok

The book was good but very long for to me a disappointing ending and left it on the hinge which I don't like I like closure

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NOT A MYSTERY NOVEL

This book is not a mystery story by any means. It is a good, but not great, tale of what a well-meaning "perfect" mother learns about herself and her perfect family as the hours, days, weeks, and months pass after her young daughter goes missing. Very slow in some places.

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Heart tugging

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This book really hit me about our family and what we do and don't know about them. The ending was definitely bittersweet but thought provoking. I actually drove around for 40 minutes just to finish the book before reaching home. Definitely recommend, but prepared to have your heart strings tugged.

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Great story!!!

So many twists and turns!!!! Loved it!! If other books are available from same author I will definitely consider reading more!

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I gave up on this one...

I rarely ever give up on a book once I’m at least half way into it.

This one just lost me. It seemed to move very slowly and I just completely lost interest. I decided to read other reviews and when I read over and over how readers were frustrated and disappointed with the ending; I gave up and moved on to a new book.

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Kept you reading!

Great book! Loved the ending! Beautifully written drew you in and you felt the pain, despair and determination

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Good ending

slow at times, but overall a good story. makes you want to never have kids

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Never saw it coming

Beautiful - sad - surprising turns. Families are complicated- the mother/daughter relationship the most of all. Kept me listening!! Going to try another book from this author if out there.

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Really enjoyed this book

The story line was intriguing. The reader of this book was great. Would highly recommend this mystery. Will look for more books by this author.

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I expected better.

This book would have been so much better with more than one narrator. Only the mother's voice gets a little tiresome. Also it was ver predictable for the most part and then it went off on tangents. Not the best writing. I think this author is trying to copy Liane Moriart's style and wasn't successful in doing so.

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