The Daughter Author:Jane Shemilt 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 great teenagers, married to her loving husband, Ted, a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play... more », the seemingly ideal life Jenny has built begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide investigation 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 and the police have more pressing cases to investigate. 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 girl she thought she’d raised. Jenny knows she’ll never be able to find Naomi unless she uncovers the whole truth about her daughter -- a twisting, painful journey into the past that will lead to an almost unthinkable revelation...« less