#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner about a daughter\'s search for her mother, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers. -- BookPage. -- Bookreporter A] captivating and emotional story.
Leaving Time may be her finest work yet. . . . -- USA Today In Jenna, Jodi] Picoult has created an unforgettable character who will easily endear herself to each and every reader. -- People A fast-paced, surprise-ending mystery. -- Us Weekly A] moving tale. -- The Washington Post A riveting drama. an entertaining tale about parental love, friendship, loss. . . -- The Boston Globe Poignant . a smart, accessible yarn with a suspenseful puzzle at its core. . .
Praise for Leaving Time Piercing and uplifting .
As Jenna\'s memories dovetail with the events in her mother\'s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish.
As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they\'ll have to face even harder answers.
Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest: Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons, only to later doubt her gifts, and Virgil Stanhope, the jaded private detective who\'d originally investigated Alice\'s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues.
A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother\'s whereabouts.
Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice\'s old journals.
For more Than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident.
Now, in Leaving Time, she has delivered a book unlike anything she\'s written before.
Includes the Novella Larger Than Life Throughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us ( The Boston Globe ). #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner about a daughter\'s search for her mother, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers
