Jodi Picoult
1) Leaving home
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Leaving Home brings together three, previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, 'Weights and Measures', deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and, 'Ritz' tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime. Jodi Picoult has the remarkable ability to portray an event's key...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
'I don't want that nurse touching my baby.' Those are the instructions from the newborn child's parents. However, when the baby goes into cardiac arrest, Ruth, a nurse of twenty years' experience, sees no option but to assist. But the baby dies. And Ruth is charged with negligent homicide. Ruth is shattered and bewildered as she tries to come to terms with her situation. She finds different kinds of support from her sister, a fiery radical, and her...