Jane Shemilt has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators. The most-rated is The Daughter.
The Playground
Summary
Big Little Lies meets Lord of the Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s breakout debut The Daughter. Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband, and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful interior designer whose casually cruel banker husband is careful not to leave visible bruises; she curates her perfectly thin body so closely she misses everything their teenage daughter is hiding. Then there’s Grace, a young Zimbabwean immigrant, who lives in high-rise housing project with her two children and their English father Martin, an award-winning but chronically broke novelist; she does far more for her family than she should have to. As the weeks go by, the couples become very close; there are barbecues, garden parties, a holiday at a country villa in Greece. Resentments flare. An affair begins. Unnoticed, the children run wild. The couples are busily watching each other, so distracted and self-absorbed that they forget to watch their children. No one sees the five children at their secret games or realize how much their family dynamics are changing until tragedy strikes. The story twists and then twists again while the three families desperately search for answers. It’s only as they begin to unravel the truth of what happened over the summer that they realize evil has crept quietly into their world. But has this knowledge come too late?
©2019 Jane Shemilt (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers
Un delitto quasi perfetto
Summary
Emma e Adam Jordan sono due medici all'apice della carriera, così quando viene loro offerta l'opportunità di trascorrere un anno in Africa, con i tre figli, per collaborare a un progetto di ricerca, accettano con entusiasmo, convinti sia l'occasione che aspettano da sempre. E sarà di certo un'esperienza che non dimenticheranno, ma non per le ragioni che i Jordan immaginano. Quando una sera Emma torna a casa e trova vuota la culla del piccolo Sam, la famiglia capisce che il sogno si è trasformato nel peggiore degli incubi. Un anno dopo, a migliaia di chilometri di distanza, Emma è ancora ossessionata dall'immagine di quella culla vuota, e continua a isolarsi sempre di più dal resto della famiglia. Che ne è stato di Sam? È ancora vivo? Si è trattato di un rapimento o di qualcosa di più inquietante? Cos'è successo davvero quella notte? >> Questo audiobook in edizione integrale vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.
©2016 Newton Compton Editori S.r.l. Tradotto da Alice Crocella (P)2016 Audible Studios
The Daughter
Summary
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, 15-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios - kidnapping, murder - seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter's disappearance, she's still digging for answers - and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she's trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she'd raised.
©2014 Jane Shemilt (P)2015 Tantor