Katie Fisher is Amish. For eighteen years, she has grown up in a community set apart from the modern world by lifestyle and belief. It is a community fiercely protective of its way of life, and to turn your back on it is to lose everything – your church, your home, your family.

 

So when, in the middle of the night, the baby comes, Katie does the only thing she knows how to do in times of stress: she prays.

 

She falls asleep, exhausted, and when she wakes, it seems her prayer is answered. The baby is gone. Her father need never know.

 

But faith alone cannot help when her child’s body is found.

Reviews

'Jodi Picoult is not one to shy away from fictional controversy; in fact, the more tangled and messy a moral dilemma appears, the better she likes it.

Daily Mail

'Picoult has been incredibly successful in dissecting the pain that family members go through when faced with sensitive and emotive issues'

Daily Express

'Picoult, once again, grabs a razor-sharp issue and uses her brilliantly intricate pen to expose all the shades of grey with PERFECTION.'

Cosmopolitan