Change of Heart - Tapa dura

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. ! It's utterly gripping.' -- Eve on CHANGE OF HEART 20080401 '! it's an involving, page-turning mixture of emotional upheaval and reasoned argument !' -- Daily Mail 20080411 'A carefully-plotted narrative and perfect pacing lend Picoult's latest work of fiction credibility.' -- Image 20080401 'If you want to fuel a discussion, look no further than Jodi Picoult's 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 couldn't want for more for your reading group to sink its collective gnashers into.' -- MsLexia 20080401 '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 20080413 '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 20080419

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 ...