One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds. Waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens one day that changes everything for him. Now he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June's twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes and the rage of a mother who has lost her child. 

Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerises and enthralls readers with a story of justice, love and redemption.

Author Biography

Jodi Picoult, who at age 35 has eight novels and three children to her credit, was born and raised - happily - on Long Island. Her novels, which all centre on what it means to love someone, have come out in rapid-fire succession. Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton but when she graduated she headed not for the word processor, but for Wall Street, and followed that with stints at a textbook publishing company and an ad agency. She also taught creative writing part-time at a high school. She then got her master's degree in education at Harvard, married Tim, found she was pregnant and wrote a thousand page manuscript, which became her first published work, Songs of the Humpback Whale.