The Pact by Jodi Picoult, ISBN 9781743310830

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'The Pact' is a powerful tale that explores the tenuous bonds of family and friendship in the wake of unexpected tragedy. Two families who have been neighbours for nearly twenty years, have two children Emily and Chris, born months apart. The four parents joke that they are destined to fall in love, and as the children grow up, they are friends then as teenagers become lovers. However all existing relationships are torn apart when Emily dies from a gunshot wound - for which, to the parents' horror and disbelief, Chris is put on trial for first degree murder.

This heartrending novel poses profound questions we can all relate to: How well do we ever really know our children or our friends? What if . . .?

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About the Author: Jodi Picoult

Jodi studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism - and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent - led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher - before entering Harvard to pursue a master's in education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
In 2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. She has also been the recipient an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist, one of ten books written for adults that have special appeal for young adults; the Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year; a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America; Cosmopolitan magazine's Fearless Fiction' Award 2007; Waterstone's Author of the Year in the UK, and a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award. Most recently, she wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her books are translated into thirty four languages in thirty five countries.
She and Tim and their three children live in Hanover, New Hampshire with a variety of animals including two Springer spaniels, two donkeys, two geese, three ducks, six chickens, and the occasional Holstein.

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