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For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. Emily Gold and Chris Harte are soul mates.
So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There is a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father's cabinet - a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described.
The profound questions faced by the characters in this heartrending novel are those we can all relate to: How well do we ever really know our children or our friends? As its chapters unfold, alternating between an idyllic past and an unthinkable present, The Pact paints an indelible portrait of families in anguish, culminating in an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama.
Jodi Picoult's extraordinary tale of love, friendship and family dares to explore the terrifying secrets that lurk in the hearts of the people we think we know inside and out.
Jodi Picoult has a huge following among (mainly) women. Now her bestseller, The Pact, is being re-released for a younger audience, this new edition containing explanatory notes at the back.
ISBN: 9781742370149
ISBN-10: 1742370144
Audience:
Teenager / Young Adult
For Ages: 14 - 16 years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 552
Published: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.8
x 4.000
Weight (kg): 0.513
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