Leaving Time

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Abigail Revasch, Kathe Mazur, Mark Deakins, Rebecca Lowman

Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals.

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.

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.

As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realise that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers. As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerising finish. A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.

©2014 Jodi Picoult (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Critic reviews

Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance.' (Stephen King, best-selling author.)

"It’s hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes." ( The Financial Times)

"Picoult is a master of the craft of storytelling.'" ( Associated Press)