The Daughter by Jane Shemlit
Published March 3, 2015 by William Morrow Paperbacks
How well do you really know those you love?
Jenny loves her three teenage children and her husband, Ted, a celebrated neurosurgeon. She loves the way that, as a family, they always know each other's problems and don't keep secrets from each other.
But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play and a nationwide search for her begins, secrets previously kept from Jenny are revealed.
Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother desperately searching for answers. But the traces Naomi's left behind reveal a very different girl to the one Jenny thought she'd raised. And the more she looks the more she learns that everyone she trusted has been keeping secrets.
How well does she really know her sons, her husband? How well did she know Naomi? If Jenny is going to find her, she'll have to first uncover the truth about the daughter she thought told her everything
Jenny loves her three teenage children and her husband, Ted, a celebrated neurosurgeon. She loves the way that, as a family, they always know each other's problems and don't keep secrets from each other.
But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play and a nationwide search for her begins, secrets previously kept from Jenny are revealed.
Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother desperately searching for answers. But the traces Naomi's left behind reveal a very different girl to the one Jenny thought she'd raised. And the more she looks the more she learns that everyone she trusted has been keeping secrets.
How well does she really know her sons, her husband? How well did she know Naomi? If Jenny is going to find her, she'll have to first uncover the truth about the daughter she thought told her everything
My Thoughts…
The Daughter is a book that I was nervous about
reading. A story about a teenage daughter that goes missing is
never easy.
This story is told from the mothers point of
view. The guilt and blame she has mirrors what any mother
would feel when her daughter doesn't come home one night. But
add to that lose all the secrets she finds out about the rest of her family and
her life should be shattered. Yet, jenny stays strong and
holds onto her belief that Naomi is out there and alive. She
never gives up and a year after the disappearance she is still finding clues
and holding out hope.
Daughter flashes between the present, the days before
Naomi's disappearance, and the days immediately following her
disappearance. I loved that each part was labeled
so there was never any question of the timing. I also
found that each part of the story gave me clues and insight into where Jane
Shemitt wanted to lead the readers. While I never solved the
mystery until the very end, I enjoyed trying to put the clues
together.
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