A Spark of Light: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
by Picoult, Jodi
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- ISBN 13
- 9781444788129
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Hodder & Stoughton, 2018-10-30. First Edition, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. F/VG/ND. Box X26 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression:1st. ""1"".* Date of Publication: 2018* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated cloth-covered boards with white title to metallic red spine and coloured title to face. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. VG+.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, possibly as issued. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, seems lightly read. No other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 337 pp. text. xxiv pp. Epilogue, Bibliography, Author's notes, acknowledgements and blank pages at rear.* Product description:- The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who barricade the building every day, the service it offers is no different from legalised murder. Now life and death decisions are being made horrifyingly real: a lone protester with a gun has taken the staff, patients and visitors hostage. Starting at the tensest moment in the negotiations for their release, ""A Spark of Light"" unravels backwards, revealing hour by urgent hour what brought each of these people - the gunman, the negotiator, the doctors, nurses and women who have come to them for treatment - to this point.? This is a FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG+. 0
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On Sep 26 2018, a reader said:
A Spark of Light is the twenty-third novel by popular American author, Jodi Picoult. In Jackson, Mississippi, a women's clinic that provides, amongst other services, abortions is targeted daily by pro-life campaigners. They harass the staff and the clients as they enter and leave. But today is different: a gunman has entered the building and begun shooting.
Trained police hostage negotiator, Detective Lieutenant Hugh McElroy is soon on the scene to talk to the gunman, but within minutes learns that his daughter, Wren and his sister, Bex are inside the clinic along with other innocent hostages. As he tries to reason with the shooter, those inside struggle to help the injured without further enraging their captor.
The day's events, as they unfold over ten hours, are told in reverse, with an epilogue resolving the dramatic end of the first chapter. As the story follows the path that directs each character to their destiny at the Clinic, their thoughts and dialogue give the reader a deep appreciation of their nature, their challenges, their passions. The shooter's motivation and the series of events that leads up to his shocking actions illustrates how easily misunderstanding, desperation, a deficit of compassion and happenstance together can end in tragedy.
Picoult never hesitates to tackle controversial topics, nor does she in this latest work. The main issue is, of course, abortion, but many other related topics feature: the legal obstacles, the reason doctors and nurses work in these clinics, the for and against arguments, the situations where abortion seems appropriate, the fallacies that are spouted by pro-lifers, inequity between laws that protect the foetus and those protecting the mother, the legal inconsistencies between states, the import of illegal abortion drugs from China, and even the semantics surrounding the issue.
While many will feel that her treatment of the topic is balanced, Picoult's latest novel is bound to polarise readers. The depth of her research is apparent and she backs it up with an extensive bibliography. In the Author's Note, Picoult gives a succinct quote regards pro-lifer activities from a woman who has had an abortion: "I don't need people shaming me because of a choice that already hurt my heart to have to make." Picoult gives the reader yet another informative, insightful and thought-provoking read.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by Allen & Unwin.
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- Title
- A Spark of Light: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
- Author
- Picoult, Jodi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG/ND
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1444788124
- ISBN 13
- 9781444788129
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date Published
- 2018-10-30
- Pages
- 362
- X weight
- g
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