Authors: Jane Shemilt

The Daughter (27 page)

FIFTEEN MONTHS LATER

Carys. It's a Welsh name. I looked it up. It means “love.”

I would like to thank my agents, Eve White, Jack Ramm, and Rebecca Winfield.

Many thanks to the team at Penguin UK, especially Samantha Humphreys, Maxine Hitchcock, Celine Kelly, Beatrix McIntyre, Joe Yule, Clare Parkinson, and Elizabeth Smith.

Thank you to the team at William Morrow, including my editor, Rachel Kahan, also Kim Lewis, Lorie Young, and Mumtaz Mustafa.

My gratitude to my tutors, including Patricia Ferguson, Chris Waking, Tessa Hadley, Mimi Thebo, and Tricia Wastvedt.

Thanks to my writing group: Tanya Atapattu, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai, Victoria Finlay, Emma Geen, Susan Jordan, Sophie McGovern, Peter Reason, Mimi Thebo, and Vanessa Vaughan.

I am grateful to police constable Nick Shaw for the police details and for his help with the manuscript and to my sister, Katie Shemilt, for her photographic skills.

My family made all the difference. Martha's encouragement was the starting point. Henry and Tommy were generous with their technical skills. Steve, Mary, and Johny were the essential backup team.

To my father and mother, whom I miss every day, thank you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

While working full time as a physician,
JANE SHEMILT
received an M.A. in creative writing. She was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for
The Daughter
, her first novel. She and her husband, a professor of neurosurgery, have five children and live in Bristol, England.

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CREDITS

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Cover photograph Â© by Martin Poole/Getty Images

This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Penguin Books.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE DAUGHTER
. Copyright Â© 2014 by Jane Shemilt. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-232047-6

EPub Edition March 2015 ISBN 9780062320483

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