Mercy

Name: Mercy
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (26 reviews)
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9781436145725

Author: Jodi Picoult

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 17 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/19/2008

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a “sensitive exploration of the balance of love” (Publishers Weekly).

Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide at her request, and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife’s new assistant. In the midst of betrayals and trials, forced to confront the limits of their love, these cousins must ask themselves how far the borders of their hearts can extend.

About Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is an American novelist born in Nesconset, Long Island, New York. She has had a very diversified career with her education in writing being received at Princeton University. She had a variety of jobs ranging from writing short stories when still in college for Seventeen magazine and editing text books, to becoming the writer of the DC Comics Wonder Woman (Vol. 3), issue #6 in March 2007 and #10 in June of 2007.

Picoult’s first novel, Nineteen Minutes, about a school shooting in a small town became #1 on the NY Times Bestseller List. Then her second novel also debuted #1, entitled Change of the Heart. In 2009 her novel, My Sister’s Keeper was adapted to a featured film.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on December 11, 2020

This is the story of Jamie who confesses to killing his wife, his terminally ill wife. I knew before I picked this one up that I was going to really enjoy this one as this is one of those topics that always has me sitting on the fence with indecision and as each chapter past – that’s exactly what ha......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on October 03, 2022

This book was one of the worst books I’ve read in a while. Usually, I find Jodi Picoult to be a good storyteller, but this time there was just no story to tell. The plot supposedly revolves around the suicide/murder of a cancer patient, but it was really about how much of a prick Cameron is. He is th......more

Goodreads review by Melodie on November 16, 2015

I believe I read this book under false pretense. I thought the plot was dealing with the issue of euthanasia.In truth, that issue took a back seat to the shenanigans of the weak,ineffectual,selfish,hormone driven sheriff. Cameron Mac Donald is not only the sheriff of Wheelock, Massachusetts, he is......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 19, 2008

I was not really a fan of this book. It could be so much better, IMO. The flashbacks to Scotland were strange and I found it dragged quite a bit. Certainly nowhere near my favourite of Picoult.......more