Even in Salem Falls there’s a great balance of characters, interweaving themes and description, without letting on straight away who to like and dislike.
The stories nearly always delve into very serious and sometimes quite dark matters, but seem factually quite accurate (correct me if I’m wrong, this is what I’ve read between the lines).
One thing I like about a Picoult novel is that she does a LOT of research. I’ve read a handful of her stories in the past and although they’re all very absorbing and detailed, they can sometimes get a bit repetitive, meaning that gaps between them is probably advised. Famed for writing My Sister’s Keeper, which would later become a hit film, I used to read the occasional novel from her ever extending list of works – from her website, the author has reached 26 separate books, five of which have been made into films. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its own history…Īlthough I haven’t picked up a Jodi Picoult since my mid teens, there was something about reading one anew that I found refreshing. He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody’s diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls.
Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls’ prep school – until a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation.
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