The Daughter by Jane Shemilt
Physician Jenny Malcolm feels she has it all: a strong
family practice with loyal patients, three healthy, well-adjusted teenagers and
a neurosurgeon husband who is at the top of his field. One night Jenny’s fifteen-year-old daughter
Naomi doesn’t come home after her school play and the life Jenny thinks is so
perfect begins to show cracks, cracks that go all the way to the foundation and
eventually making Jenny realizes she mightn’t have been as astute and aware
where her family is concerned as she should have been. The police launch a nationwide search and
Jenny is certain Naomi was kidnapped, but as secrets about Naomi, her twin
brothers and even her father begin to emerge, her disappearance takes on new dimensions
and Jenny must face a Naomi she never knew, a Naomi who may have just walked
away from her life. The narrative shifts
between the time just before and after Naomi’s disappearance to a year later
and a Jenny who is still trying to piece together that night, what led to the
events and what shape her life will take from here. Jenny is determined not to let her daughter
go, even as painful truths are revealed.
Strands of lives are teased out and tangled together, creating a truth
that is even more tragic and heart wrenching than imagined.
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