She loves her husband, ted, a celebrated neurosurgeon. Hi readers, today, i finished reading the thriller, daughter by jane shemilt. Daughter by jane shemilt theres a stranger in your daughter s room. The narrator of the story is jane, mother of three kids and married to a neurosurgeon. In the tradition of gillian flynn, tana french, and ruth rendell. But when her youngest child, fifteenyearold naomi, doesnt come home. Jane shemilt builds layer upon layer of tension in a novel you wont be able to put down tess gerritsen.
But when her youngest child, fifteenyearold naomi, doesnt come home after her school play, jennys seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. However here the similarities end or at least i hope so for janes sake. Dr jenny malcolm believes she has the perfect family but she gets a rude awakening when her fifteen year old daughter, naomi, goes missing and jenny has to face up to the fact she didnt know her child as well as she thought she did. It is difficult to discuss the ending without a spoiler, but suffice to say i found it disappointing and very. These reservations aside, daughter is a gripping, intelligentlywritten novel which keeps you guessing throughout. She was shortlisted for the janklow and nesbit award and the lucy cavendish fiction prize for daughter, which is her first novel. Exclusive interview with jane shemilt female first. I love mystery books, and i was particularly drawn to the beautiful pastelcoloured cover. Jenny is becoming worried that her daughter, naomi, is pulling away from her, but appears to be a little afraid to do anything that might make naomi mad. Listen to unlimited audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. Daughter is the very definition of a pageturner, multistranded and saturated with. Its naomis mother jenny who tells the story of the events leading up to naomis failure to come home one night after her appearance in a school play, and of the aftermath of her what. I am not sure why author jane shemilt decided to include this particular.
Her oldest daughter, naomi, has disappeared, and as time passes the truth seems harder to grasp. Jane shemilt s biography, bibliography, list of books, with the current titles, summaries, covers, excerpts, author notes, and availability. Jenny, a general practitioner and mother to three teenagers, tells the terrifying tale from her perspective. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. As the police delve further into naomis life, jenny is horrified by the secrets. When i reached the ending i felt like i had been caught by the foot, held upside and shaken hard. Nor that the affairs devastating ending will have consequences for their own future. While the ending was needlessly frustrating, if you can contain your. Daughter jane shemilt part family drama, part crime novel, daughter is a story that raises lots of questions to keep you reading, has an interesting structure and has some real merits. Constructed gingerly around a soontoexplode family secret, the daughter a soapy take on henrik ibsens the wild duck creates a superficial tension by situating its. To ask other readers questions about daughter, please sign up. She enjoys her work and although she occasionally struggles with the guilt of being a.
Part family drama, part crime novel, daughter is a story that raises lots of. Over time, the children, their siblings and parents all become friends leading to eve. When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesnt know her daughter as well as she thought in jane shemilt s haunting debut novel, daughter. While the ending was needlessly frustrating, if you can contain your curiosity and refrain from reading those final few pages, this is a very satisfying read indeed. Listen to the daughter by jane shemilt, sophie aldred for free with a 30 day free trial. I read this from start to finish on a flight, it was an interesting diversion but the ending must be one of the most ridiculous ive read in a long time. Her debut novel daughter was a richard and judy pick, shortlisted for the lucy cavendish award and nominated for an edgar award. What follows is a painfully average abduction story told through the eyes of naomis mother, jenny. And yet nothing, right until the end, is as it seems. Twelve month after disappearance, pages without missing anything important. But it doesnt show the way her hair shines so brightly it looks like sheets of gold.
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated. Daughter ebook by jane shemilt 9781405915304 rakuten kobo. What would you do if your daughter was stolen snatched off the street as she walked home. Just send us an email and well put the best up on the site. I remember enjoying the ending because it was so open and seemed like there could be another story focused on the daughter. The story starts with the perfect family, two doctors and their perfect offspring. Read a sample read a sample read a sample read a sample enlarge book cover. Its naomis mother jenny who tells the story of the events leading up to naomis failure to come home one night after her appearance in a school play, and of the aftermath.
The night of the disappearance she used to tell me everything. The drowning lesson by jane shemilt is in the top ten thrillers of 2015. Sound asleep on the couch waiting for her daughter to come home from the theater and its afterparty, jenny didnt discover the disappearance until the next morning. About the book jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. In summary, its a novel about a wife and mother jenny whose. Part family drama, part crime novel, daughter is a story that raises lots of questions to keep you reading, has an interesting structure and has some real merits. But in the daughter, what appears to be a simple abduction soon turns into something far more complex and baffling. I have read and enjoyed previous novels by jane shemilt, but.
Daughter jane shemilt august 27, 2014 books august 2014 books contemporary fiction daughter when a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesnt know her daughter as well as she thought in jane shemilt s haunting debut novel, daughter. Keep going through the initial gloomy tunnel of misery and emerge into an. The daughter by jane shemilt, 9780062320476, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Product specification author jane shemilt isbn 9781405915298 format paperback, publisher penguin books ltd publication date aug 28, 2014 pages 416 product dimensions x 198 x 33mm weight 392g condition new categories. On the other hand, the ending left me feeling a little disappointed, and just didnt quite deliver in the ways id hoped. She and her husband, a professor of neurosurgery, have five children and live in bristol. Seven things id like my readers to know about me is it ok for my husband. From the publishing team that brought you liane moriarty and jojo moyes, this first novel about the disappearance of a fifteen yearold became michael josephs biggest debut fiction launch of last autumn. Jane shemilt is an internationallyacclaimed, bestselling author of psychological suspense novels. But when her youngest child, fifteenyearold naomi, doesnt come home after her. One of the things that really bothered me was the hinted at explanation that ed, theo, and naomis problems were because jenny worked long hours at the clinic and spent all of her time painting and was therefore neglectful of her children, but rarely. Daughter by jane shemilt centres on the disappearance of a 15yearold girl, naomi, from the kind of middleclass, welloff family that has a cleaner and a holiday cottage. A longburied family secret explodes in the daughter. Jane shemilt s book daughter has stayed in the top ten for nine weeks, kept from the no 1 slot by jeffrey archer.
Sadly, every abduction story cliche has been awkwardly shoehorned into the story in such a fashion that you can see. She loves her three teenage children her twins, theo and ed, and fifteen year old daughter, naomi. Daughter by jane shemilt, 9781405915298, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. She left me to take care of her erratic mother for her when frank left her. She was shortlisted for the janklow and nesbitt award and the lucy cavendish fiction prize for daughter, which is her first novel she and her husband, a professor of. I was full of questions and feels and had an urgent need to talk about the book to anyone who has read it. Its easy to envisage this engrossing story translating into the sort of film that would have you weeping on the edge of your seat and so not surprising to find that tv rights in several countries have already been snapped up. Frantic, jenny and her husband, ted, call the police. Jane shemilt s debut novel daughter is one such book. Michael joseph has signed two more novels by jane shemilt, whose hit debut daughter sold 160,366 copies through nielsen bookscan her second novel, the drowning lesson. No more details in order to avoid entering spoiler territory but this novel. Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. Two more from jane shemilt to michael joseph the bookseller.
A tautly coiled spring of suspicion and suspense which builds to a devastating ending mail on sunday complex and baffling. For me, the book was a slow measured suspense novel, with the focus on the mother rather than the daughter. So when one faithful night their daughter naomi goes missing, they instantly. On the other hand, the ending left me feeling a little disappointed, and just didnt quite deliver in. So, this is a novel about a woman named jane eyre, and its titled jane eyre. A in creative writing at bath spa, gaining both with distinction. 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.
The daughter by jane shemilt and sophie aldred audiobook. You know like saying no or is there a reason you are acting like a witch. The ending of the story daughter was really unexpected and bit extended. 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. It meant so many people lied to her and i was spluttering at the end. Daughter by jane shemilt contemporary fiction books at. And, after so much suspense, i also found the ending, although unexpected, a little rushed and implausible. While working as a gp, jane shemilt completed a post graduate diploma in creative writing at bristol university and went on to study for the m. The story shifts from then and now a year later as jenny traces down the secrets her daughter has left behind. Jane shemilt builds layer upon layer of tension in a thriller you wont be able to put down. The daughter by jane shemilt miss morgans bookshelf. Thats as good a place to start a story as any, i suppose.
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