'Gripping ...you'll be riveted by this multilayered tale of small-town intrigue.' - Glamour 'Genuinely suspenseful...remarkably original.' - Publishers Weekly Wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for sexual assault on one of his students, Jack St Bride arrives in Salem Falls determined to rebuild his life. 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 ...but the rest of the inhabitants remain suspicious of the stranger. Just when ...
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'Gripping ...you'll be riveted by this multilayered tale of small-town intrigue.' - Glamour 'Genuinely suspenseful...remarkably original.' - Publishers Weekly Wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for sexual assault on one of his students, Jack St Bride arrives in Salem Falls determined to rebuild his life. 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 ...but the rest of the inhabitants remain suspicious of the stranger. 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. In Salem Falls Jodi Picoult again weaves a compelling story with consummate skill and a firm understanding of the complexity of human relationships. Jodi Picoult's bestselling and widely acclaimed novels include Perfect Match, Plain Truth, Keeping Faith and The Pact. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Read more about Jodi Picoult and her new novel Second Glance on her websi
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Another fantastic read by jodi Picoult. A really good book to take on holiday as you won't want to put it down
nmua
Aug 2, 2008
Preposterous melodrama
Maybe it's the audio CD narrator alternating between sickly sweet mooniness, to out-of-place scorn, to stilted cardboard cut-out attempts at male voices, but I can't believe this is the effort of an award-winning writer. She apparently doesn't even know that "The reason is because" is improper English. The events in this story are so ridiculously improbable, she destroys her own credibility. The writing is at best, specious. At worst are lines like "throw away his freedom like an extra stick of gum", and sappy offerings such as "his name rolled around her mouth like a butterscotch candy" - I won't torture you by quoting descriptions of gratuitous teen (and adult) sex, or the occasional, oddly-placed crudeness. Hyperbole and melodrama reign supreme here.
reader4ever
Jul 29, 2008
Salem Falls is an awesome book! Jodi Picoult is a great story teller, and you get so engrossed with these characters in the story, that you can't put the book down until the very last page!
