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Dear Daughter Hardcover – 14 August 2014

by Elizabeth Little (Author)

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'As soon as they processed my release Noah and I hit the ground running. A change of clothes. A wig. An inconspicuous sedan. We doubled back once, twice, then drove south when we were really headed east. In San Francisco we had a girl who looked like me board a plane to Hawaii.
Oh, I thought I was so clever.
But you probably already know that I’m not.'

LA IT girl Janie Jenkins has it all. The looks, the brains, the connections. The criminal record.

Ten years ago, in a trial that transfixed America, Janie was convicted of murdering her mother. Now she's been released on a technicality she's determined to unravel the mystery of her mother's last words, words that send her to a tiny town in the very back of beyond. But with the whole of America’s media on her tail, convinced she's literally got away with murder, she has to do everything she can to throw her pursuers off the scent.

She knows she really didn't like her mother. Could she have killed her?

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Publisher : Harvill Secker (14 August 2014)
Language: : English
Hardcover : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1846558166
ISBN-13 : 978-1846558160
Dimensions : 16.2 x 3.4 x 24 cm

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"Gone Girl meets Mean Girls" (Glamour)

"Dear Daughter has three of my favorite things in a book: a smart, damaged, unstoppable narrator with a slicing sense of humor; needle-sharp writing that brings characters and atmosphere leaping off the page; and a vivid, original plot full of satisfying twists. This is an all-nighter, and the best debut mystery I've read in a long time" (Tana French)

"Dark, sharp and witty" (Emma Hunt & Claire Frost Sun)

"A really gutsy, clever, energetic read, often unexpected, always entertaining. I loved Janie Jenkins’s sassy voice and Elizabeth Little’s too. In the world of crime novels, Dear Daughter is a breath of fresh air" (Kate Atkinson)

"With a narrator so unreliable you suffer from constant seasickness, and the same fizzy sense of the media tracking the case that gave Gone Girl such edge, this is the thriller of the summer… This is so damn good that it’s worth going on holiday with someone you hate, just so you can ignore them all week" (Alexandra Heminsley The Debrief)

"The real pleasure of this novel is its main character. As narrator, Janie is razor sharp, amoral and fizzing with coal-black wisecracks… A very modern and very funny take on a murder mystery" (Deidre O'Brien Sunday Mirror)

"Every year a few books stand out. This is one of them" (Sun)

"With a compelling cast of superbly drawn characters, a serpentine plot and crackling dialogue laced with stark, pungent asides, Dear Daughter defies you to put it down" (Geoffrey Wansell Daily Mail)

"This crime fiction début is the real deal. Unreliable narrator? Check. Plot twists? Yup. Razor-sharp writing? That, too... A thrilling, gripping read" (Glamour)

"A clever, witty thriller you’ll want to gobble up in one go" (Good Housekeeping)

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THE book of the summer. From the publishers of The Never List comes a brilliantly sharp, clever and hugely enjoyable thriller. You might fight with your mother, Janie Jenkins might have killed hers.

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Lady Ottoline

quite disappointing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2019

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I purchased this book believing the hype of previous reviews and was very disappointed as I personally felt the story was very long drawn out. Not the tense "who did it" that the reviews had earlier portrayed. I got totally lost with the relationship with all the "Aunts, Uncles and cousins" I think the book had such potential but for me the lack of good descriptions of the lead characters relatives meant that you didn't truly become able to form a description or picture of them in your mind which I think is very important to building a character. So all in all, a disappointment for me but it did have potential. Obviously I didn't build that rapport with the book, Good luck , worth a read but not for me.

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Rae

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2018

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Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book kept me hooked from start to finish. I do wanted to find out who killed Marion/Tessa. Was it her daughter Jane? I won't spoil the outcome. The book had plenty of twists and turns.

KittyG26

Couldn't put it down

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2015

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I found this pretty un-put-down-able, and read it in a day. I loved the character of Jane/Rebecca, and thought it was a pretty good story. Unfortunately it descended into silliness in the last couple of chapters and I found the ending very unsatisfying, otherwise would have given it five stars.

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Sarah Ward

Easy read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2018

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I read this book in a day, it was an easy read with plot twists to keep you reading. The Kindle edition I read had quite a few spelling mistakes though which were distracting.

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JuliaPeculiar

Kept my interest throughout.........

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2014

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This book is worth reading. I did not like the central character Jane, or indeed most of the other characters but it had an interesting story. The town seemed to suffer from small town syndrome, which I hope is fiction, as if I lived in a town like this I would be running away too.

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