Picoult's imagery is startling and brilliant her characters move credibly through this affecting drama. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth and the generosity of spirit required by love. Unable to communicate her terrors about herself to Nicholas, she leaves him to search for her mother, who may hold the answers to her life. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands of Nicholas's socially sophisticated world, and after the birth of their son, Max, she becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and work as a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish his career as a cardiac surgeon. When she marries Harvard medical student Nicholas Prescott, his parents disown him, disapproving of their Irish Catholic daughter-in-law. She leaves her Chicago home for Cambridge, Mass., at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist, but must work in a diner because she can't afford art school. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O'Toole has been left with painful doubts about her self-worth. MAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now.Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of. Emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed by the demands of her family, she knows that this time, if she runs, she must leave behind her newborn child - but could it be possible Paige's baby would be better off without her?Įxploring motherhood, absence and the legacy it leaves, this is an unputdownable story from bestselling Jodi Picoult. The story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left home for art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own.īut Paige cannot forget her mother's absence or the shameful memories from her own past, and running away is in her blood. From the author of the 1 New York Times bestsellers Small Great Things and My Sisters Keeper, a novel exploring the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. 'Picoult has an uncanny knack of dreaming up moral dilemmas that you cannot ignore: you must know the resolution' Sunday Express Jodi Picoult Penguin, Apr 1, 1995- Fiction- 464 pages 41Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified From the author of the 1 New York. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

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