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Vanishing Acts

by

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is fantastic. She is an author who knows the craft of storytelling instinctively and is mistress of suspense. She is also an interesting person in her own right.She studied creative writing at Princeton and has a Masters in education from Harvard and it wasn't until she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel in 1992.

For such a young author (she is forty-three) her world view is impressively broad and sensitive.

The seventeen works of fiction she has already produced are impressive psychological explorations of dark occurrences in ordinary people's lives. Her ordinary characters deal with these extraordinary circumstances with deeply interesting psychological and moral perspectives that have spun many readers into a captivating web.

Jodi Picoult's Vanishing Acts is wonderful to listen to on CD.

Delia Hopkins, the central character, is a young woman preparing for her wedding who is a committed and successful missing person's investigator. Picoult has her leading lady living in New Hampshire where she is close to her father who has raised her since her mother's death when she was four years old and is a loving mother to her young daughter Sophie.

You will like her.... no reader wouldn't that is maybe why when the Country Police come to arrest her father one day for the kidnapping of a young girl you feel her shock as strongly as she feels it.....

Picoult will not win any awards for her literary writing. Although this sounds unkind it is just one way to measure a work of fiction.What she excels in is showing a story so compellingly crafted and human that it commands millions of fans and you can't argue with that. 

The story is so enthralling that while listening to it in my car I would fumble to change the Cd's to the detriment of my driving. Get caught up in Picoult's web and I'll meet you there!

Sarah

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