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Change of Heart
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Product Description
June's first husband was killed in a car crash. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years on they are a happy family, June pregnant with their own child.
But now June's second daughter is dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne, an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty for the first time in 69 years in New Hampshire. Shay is going to die, and he is looking for redemption. He wants to give June's daughter his heart . . . (20080401)Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #994 in Books
- Published on: 2008-04-17
- Released on: 2008-04-17
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
Editorial Reviews
Heat
'If you're a fan of dark, serious books that explore family relationships and scary moral dilemmas involving religion, crime and politics then you're probably a massive Jodi Picoult fan already, and CHANGE OF HEART won't disappoint . . . It manages to explore all sorts of complex religious and moral issues in a way that's compelling and surprisingly accessible.' ****
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Praise for Jodi Picoult (: )
'Jodi Picoult is not one to shy away from fictional controversy; in fact, the more tangled and messy a moral dilemma appears, the better she likes it. (Daily Mail )
'Impossible to put down and stayed in my mind long after I had finished' (Observer )
'Superb, many-stranded, and grimly topical'
(The Times )'Switch off your phone before you settle down with this page-turner. ⦠Itâs utterly gripping.â (Eve on CHANGE OF HEART )
'⦠itâs an involving, page-turning mixture of emotional upheaval and reasoned argument â¦â (Daily Mail )
'A carefully-plotted narrative and perfect pacing lend Picoultâs latest work of fiction credibility.â (Image )
'If you want to fuel a discussion, look no further than Jodi Picoultâs Change of Heart. Picoult sustains all this with the supreme confidence of a bestselling writer who knows she is going to be widely read, and discussed. You couldnât want for more for your reading group to sink its collective gnashers into.â (MsLexia )
'Picoult has an uncanny knack of dreaming up moral dilemmas that you cannot ignore: you must know the resolution... True to form, Picoult keeps you guessing to the end in this morality tale... This is a challenging and clever read... it turns into an edge-of-your-seat thriller, with some thought-provoking wrangling over religious belief and the perils of self-righteousness along the way.' (Sunday Express )
'if you're a fan of dark, serious books that explore family relationships and scary moral dilemmas involving religion, crime and politics, then you're probably a massive Jodi Picoult fan already, and CHANGE OF HEART won't disappoint.' (Heat )
Eve
'Switch off your phone before you settle down with this page-turner . . . It's utterly gripping'
Customer Reviews
Page turner!!
I have read all of JP's books,this one is not one of her best but it was a great read. I just kept reading to see what happened next!
dreadful - avoid at all costs
This was my first read of a JP book and I was really looking forward to it after reading so much about how brilliant her books were. It was a dreadful copy of Green Mile themes and so predictable as well, I would avoid in fact my book is heading for the recycling bin
Full of subjects for consideration
Jodi Picoult does it again!
Jam-packed full of points for discussion, this has got to be an excellent book for a Book Group.
Shay is a death row murderer. We attend the court case that lead to his conviction, so the question is - will he be permitted to die by hanging rather than electrocution so that his heart can be used to save a life?
The twist is that the life he wants to save is that of his murder victim's sister. Still to be born at the time of her sister's death, Claire Nealon is now 11 and will die if she doesn't receive a heart urgently.
Shay sees this as a sort of Karma. Claire's mother is torn - what if qualities of the heart's owner continue into the recipient? Claire is tired of the whole thing and wants to be allowed to die.
Meanwhile strange things are happening in I Teir, things that can't be explained by ordinary means.
There are some wonderful characters, many of whom relate thier own side of the story. They are used by the author to discuss many facets of the argument, even bringing in the Gnostic Gospels, something that I seem to have managed to stay blissfully unaware of until now!
I admire the way Jodi Picoult can turn an argument over and over, flushing out different points of view.
My one hesitation with this book was the similarity between this and Keeping Faith, as if she had decided to rehash the book and make a better story out of it. For me this was compensated for, however, by the fact that she then took some of the characters from that book and introduced then in Change of Heart.
All in all a truly magnificent read. Only 10 Jodi Picoult books to go!
