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NATIONAL BESTSELLER! • From the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia: A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance • "A breathless, shocking thriller." —Jodi Picoult
The past never stays buried for too long, and what you don't know can definitely…
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1 author picked Like Mother, Like Daughter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Of course, I could hardly turn the pages fast enough for this hauntingly suspenseful tale of a mother who goes missing and a college-age daughter’s desperate search for her. But what I especially loved about it was the way in which Cleo, the college daughter, discovers that her entire narrative about her parents has been wrong.
Her ne’er-do-well father is not the hero she imagined, and her mom is not the enemy but someone whose horrific childhood led her to be overly protective. Ultimately, this is a deeply moving love story about a mother and daughter drawn together by a…
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