The Pact - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034097687X ISBN 13: 9780340976876

Synopsis

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born.

When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself, but a local detective has doubts. And the Hartes and Golds, in a single terrifying moment, must face every parent's worst fear: do we ever really know our children at all?

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Review

You will find this novel impossible to put down - and if you take it on holiday with you, just don't plan on doing any sightseeing until you've finished it! (Daily Mail)

The novelist displays an almost uncanny ability to enter the skins of her troubled young protagonists. (New York Times)

It's riveting . . . This is a brilliant read, filled with twists and turns (Woman Magazine)

Engrossing . . . Picoult has a remarkable ability to make us share her characters' feelings of confusion and horror . . . THE PACT is compelling reading (People)

Impossible to put down (Observer)

Book Description

Newly reissued with a brilliant new livery, a classic backlist title in export edition from the inimitable Jodi Picoult.

Edition details

• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034097687X
• ISBN 13: 9780340976876
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 496