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Author: Jane Shemlit
Publisher: HarperCollins
Released: 29 July, 2015
ISBN: 9781405915298

Daughter

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Synopsis

She used to tell me everything. They have a picture. It'll help. But it doesn't show the way her hair shines so brightly it looks like sheets of gold. She smells very faintly of lemons. She bites her nails. She never cries.She loves autumn, I wanted to tell them. She collects leaves, like a child does. She is just a child.Find her.One year later.Naomi is still missing. Jenny is a mother on the brink of obsession. The Malcolm family is in pieces.Is finding the truth about Naomi the only way to put them back together? Or is the truth the thing that will finally tear them apart?

About the author

Jane Shemlit

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. She was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit award and the Lucy Cavendish fiction prize for Daughter, which is her first novel. She and her husband, a Professor of Neurosurgery, have five children and live in Bristol.