The Daughter

Name: The Daughter
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jane Shemilt
ISBN: 9781494582272

Author: Jane Shemilt

Narrator: Sophie Aldred

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/23/2015

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.

But when her youngest child, fifteen-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.

About Jane Shemilt

While working full time as a physician, Jane Shemilt received an M.A. in creative writing. She was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for The Daughter, her first novel. She and her husband, a professor of neurosurgery, have five children and live in Bristol, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leah on September 11, 2014

I've literally just finished reading Daughter... and I'm confused. What kind of ending was that? Who writes a 400 page book to end it so ambiguously? Ugh. I'm not impressed, and a tad confused. What exactly happened the night Naomi disappeared? Despite that being the main question asked of the novel......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on October 03, 2014

I have to say, in many ways, this disappointed me. The structure - bouncing back and forth between the immediate aftermath of the narrator's daughter's disappearance, and a year later - meant that we knew that every clue, and every lead, in the weeks following the disappearance led nowhere. And it me......more

Goodreads review by Deanna on July 07, 2015

I was really looking forward to this book after reading the description. However, in my opinion it didn't quite live up to my expectations. When 15 year old Naomi doesn't come home after her school play, her parents immediately start to panic. A nationwide search is launched but there seems to be no......more

Goodreads review by Alex on December 30, 2014

Where to begin? Primarily I found this book just quite dull. Nothing really happens until a good two thirds of the way in, except of course for Jenny feeling constantly guilty about not recognising the signs that her daughter was a pathological liar and a slut etc. The characters are so cliche ridde......more

Goodreads review by Aj the Ravenous Reader on March 12, 2020

More like 2.75 stars A before and after narration of a mother who lost her only daughter for more than a year and is still hoping to receive news, any news at all about her missing daughter. To be honest, I found the first half of the book compelling to read. My suspicions were raised against sever......more