A Spark of Light. First Printing. Signed by Author

Picoult, Jodi

ISBN 10: 1444788124 / ISBN 13: 9781444788129

Published by London. Hodder & Stoughton, 2018

About this Item

London. Hodder & Stoughton. 2018. First Edition/First Printing. (1 on copyright page under First Published 2018). Hard Cover. Decorative boards. No dust jacket as issued. Red spine panel with silver titles. Dark red washed endpapers. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the page before the half title. Condition is fine. The existence of the women's centre for reproductive health is controversial, and to the demonstrators who barricade the building every day, the service it offers is no different from legalised murder. a lone protester with a gun has taken the staff, patients and visitors hostage. The novel unravels backwards, revealing hour by 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.

Seller Inventory # FEB20.22002

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Spark of Light. First Printing. Signed by Author
• Publisher: London. Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444788124
• ISBN 13: 9781444788129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction, signed,first

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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.