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While working as a GP, Jane Shemilt completed a postgraduate diploma in Creative Writing at Bristol University and went on to study for the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa, gaining both with distinction. Her first novel, Daughter, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and went on to become the bestselling debut novel of 2014. She and her husband, a professor of neurosurgery, have five children and live in Bristol.
Clever * Sun * Suspenseful, brooding * Sunday Mirror * Gripping to the last page * My Weekly * Taut and thought-provoking * Woman & Home * Well-written, taut and tense * Daily Mail * A dark and twisty tale * Heat * Utterly gripping. A tautly-coiled spring of suspicion and suspense which builds to a devastating ending * Mail on Sunday * Builds layer upon layer of tension in a novel you won't be able to put down * bestselling author of I Know a Secret * Thrilling * Sunday Express * We absolutely loved this A compelling sense of place, good twists, and a tense, intense ending * bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal * Praise for Jane Shemilt * - * Little Friends is beautifully written and suffused with dread. Jane Shemilt's compelling literary thriller explores with acuity the pressure cooker challenges of adult responsibility, and the assumptions we make. The domestic settings are seductively vivid and the final outcome is profoundly shocking and terrifying * Gilly Macmillan, author of The Nanny *
