Keeping Faith: A Novel

Picoult, Jodi

ISBN 10: 0688177743 / ISBN 13: 9780688177744

Published by Harper Perennial (edition ), 2000

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Keeping Faith: A Novel
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (edition )
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688177743
• ISBN 13: 9780688177744
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

For the second time in her marriage, Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, and Faith, their seven-year-old daughter, witnesses every painful minute. In the aftermath of a sudden divorce, Mariah struggles with depression and Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend.

At first, Mariah dismisses these exchanges as a child's imagination. But when Faith starts reciting passages from the Bible, develops stigmata, and begins to perform miraculous healings, Mariah wonders if her daughter - a girl with no religious background - might indeed be seeing God. As word spreads and controversy heightens, Mariah and Faith are besieged by believers and disbelievers alike, caught in a media circus that threatens what little stability they have left.

Is Faith a prophet or a troubled little girl? Is Mariah a good mother facing an impossible crisis - or a charlatan using her daughter to get attention?

Review

Slick and pacey . . . If you like a brisk read with a soft centre, this is the novel for you (The Sunday Times)

An emotional and powerful book (Woman's Weekly)

Picoult fans will not be disappointed. There is the usual compulsive writing, the insight into family and colourful characterisation . . . a pleasure to pick up, and impossible to put down (Daily Express)

Jodi Picoult's novels often focus on lives turned upside down by some terrible event, and it's her way with the small emotional detail that makes them so rewarding (Marie Claire)