The Daughter: A Novel, by Jane Shemilt
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The Daughter: A Novel, by Jane Shemilt
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In the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Ruth Rendell, this compelling and clever psychological thriller spins the harrowing tale of a mother’s obsessive search for her missing daughter.
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.
The Daughter: A Novel, by Jane Shemilt- Amazon Sales Rank: #29507 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "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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A mother driven to the brink by uncertainty . . .
A family that was never quite as perfect as it seemed.
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three teenagers, married to her loving husband, Ted, a neurosurgeon. But when her youngest, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, the seemingly ideal life Jenny has built begins to crumble. The authorities launch an investigation, but Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.
As the months pass, the trail goes cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year later, she's still digging for answers—and what she finds disturbs her. 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.
Jenny must uncover the whole truth about her daughter—a twisting, painful journey into the past that will lead to an almost unthinkable revelation . . .
About the Author 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.A in Creative writing at Bath Spa, gaining both with distinction. She was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbitt award and the Lucy Cavendish fiction prize for Daughter, which is her first novel.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Gripping debut novel By Kate Dzienis Daughter is a gripping debut novel by Jane Shemilt, which delves into the disappearance of a teenage girl and the traces she's left behind.Naomi's mother, Jenny Malcolm, is pained at the loss of her child.In the lead up to the night of her disappearance, Naomi was changing from a vibrant, energetic young girl who shared all her secrets with her mum to a recluse who didn't want anything to do with her.The story is divided into life before and just days after Naomi goes missing, and one year later, where Naomi is still gone and life for the entire family has dramatically changed.Jenny is continuously asking herself the question - was Naomi abducted or did she disappear of her own free will?The idea behind the story itself is creative and compelling.Shemilt leaves an impression on readers who are parents, possibly putting themselves in Jenny's shoes and dreading the days their children become teenagers.There are questions one can ask throughout the book - will my child give me an attitude like Naomi and her brother Ed?Will my daughter be defiant and turn away from me?Will my children really think I don't care about them?It's easy to feel sorry for Jenny as she tries her hardest to find the answers to her daughter's disappearance but with the storyline being only from one perspective, it left me wondering if it could work from Naomi's perspective as well.As a mother, I'd like to be inside my daughter's head when she grows up and hear what she thinks of me and of our lives as a family so that I can help where I can.Given Daughter is Shemilt's first published novel, she's done a wonderful job of getting inside the mind of a mother who may or may not have made some mistakes with her teenage children.It appeared Jenny spent too much time focusing on what might have happened rather than the guilt of her daughter not coming home.Daughter highlights how some mothers may not realise they're ignoring their children and thinking in all honesty, they do, and how it's not necessarily intentional.However some pieces of Shemilt's writing are overly descriptive, particularly in the moments when Jenny takes herself away to be on her own and uses art as an outlet of expression and relaxation.The sentences became too wordy and I don't need to know each individual shade of yellow when she's painting something bright.The outlying message from Daughter is that we don't always know our families or even our friends.Jenny thinks her daughter is the perfect teenage girl who doesn't smoke, doesn't drink alcohol, doesn't have boyfriends and doesn't sneak around, but that is implausible, something a parent would know is unrealistic.So the feeling of denial is a big focus in this novel.Jenny is also very naïve when it comes to people around her, yet she's a doctor. Another unrealistic aspect to the storyline.Daughter is a good family drama, but don't read between the lines too deeply.It's an entertaining read that will have you second guessing your own thoughts about your family.
29 of 32 people found the following review helpful. The writing was good but the concept that somehow the mother was at ... By Liz fagan The writing was good but the concept that somehow the mother was at fault because she worked (like so many other millions of woman including myself both now and when my children were small) really annoyed me.
29 of 35 people found the following review helpful. the breakdown of a family By She Treads Softly Daughter by Jane Shemilt is a recommended debut novel about the breakdown of a family."It’s easier than you think to lose sight of what matters," says Jenny, a GP in Bristol, England. Jenny and her husband Ted, a neurosurgeon, are the parents of three teenagers: 17-year-old twins, Ed and Theo, and 15-year-old Naomi. When Naomi fails to come home on the second night of performance for her school play, the police are called in to try and unravel what has happened to Jenny. As the investigation plods along, Jenny realizes that she didn't know Naomi, or her boys, as well as she thought she did.The novel switches back and forth in time, going from Naomi's disappearance to a year later when Jenny is living alone in her family's vacation cottage in Dorset. We know, then, that Naomi is still missing a year later and we know that other events have taken place to disintegrate the fragile family bonds that Jenny thought were so strong. Apparently for years Jenny has been turning a blind eye to clues that were all around her regarding her whole family, not only Naomi. Shemilt also touches on mistakes doctors can make as well as mistakes parents can make.While this certainly is not a bad debut novel, there were a few problems for me. The first half of the novel moves very slowly. I kept with it hoping to find out what happened, but some of that was a sense of duty from accepting a review copy. Jenny is a well-developed character, but the rest of the family remains largely a mystery. Sure, we don't always know other people as well as we think we do, but Jenny is taking the blame being thrown at her for not seeing this or doing that, while Ted is basically being given a pass for all these things he should have noticed too. Her son Ed is a spoiled brat who needs to be told to stop blaming others for his decisions. Naomi is really a mystery. Jenny thinks she was one way when she obviously wasn't. Finally, the ending of Daughter may irritate some readers because there is no closure, just more unanswered questions and unresolved issues.Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of HarperCollins for review purposes
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