Editions

Daughter

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9781405915298

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 383g

  • RRP: £8.99

Daughter

  • The Gripping Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller and Richard & Judy Phenomenon

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RUNAWAY RICHARD & JUDY PHENOMENON

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

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?
________

'We absolutely loved this' Richard & Judy Book Club

'Thrilling' Sunday Express

'Taut and thought-provoking' Woman & Home

'Clever' Sun

'Utterly gripping' Mail on Sunday

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9781405915298

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 383g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • 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

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About the Author

Jane Shemilt

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.

Jane Shemilt

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Extracts

How Far We Fall by Jane Shemilt

From the author of bestselling phenomenon Daughter comes a modern-day Macbeth: How Far We Fall, a thrilling exploration of a marriage consumed by ambition and revenge.

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