A Spark of Light: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Picoult, Jodi

ISBN 10: 1444788124 / ISBN 13: 9781444788129

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2018

About this Item

Hodder & Stoughton, 2018-10-30. First Edition, 1st. Imp. F/VG/ND. Box X26 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression:1st. "1".* Date of Publication: 2018* Publisher: * 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+. 0 362 pp. 2018-10-30.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Spark of Light: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444788124
• ISBN 13: 9781444788129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: y First Edition, 1st. Imp.
• Condition: F/VG/ND
• Seller catalogs:
  • Novel
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.

After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.

But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the cross hairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.

Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.

Jodi Picoult—one of the most fearless writers of our time—tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding.