The Daughter Author:Jane Shemilt Jenny is a successful 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 from a school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. There is a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her fami... more »ly is broken.
As the months pass, the worst-case-scenarios - kidnapping, murder - seem less plausible. Yet more than a year later, a desperate Jenny is still digging for answers - and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone's 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.
Jenny knows she'll never be able to find Naomi unless she uncovers the whole truth - a twisting, painful journey into the past that will lead to an almost unthinkable revelation...« less
Really enjoyed this author's writing style. The whole book was rather a surprise right up to the end. Who do we really know? Not our kids that's for sure!