Sing You Home
the moving story you will not be able to put down by the number one bestselling author of A Spark of Light
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4.0 • 32 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
This Enhanced Edition contains the soundtrack of 10 original songs that accompanies the novel, with music written and songs performed by Ellen Wilber and lyrics written by Jodi Picoult. It also contains It Gets Better videos from Jodi and from the actress and singer/songwriter Heather Peace, material from Stonewall, the lesbian, gay and bisexual charity, and the video trailer for the the novel. Please note this is a large file that will take time to download over slower connections. Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then - to Zoe's surprise - blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of children again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that she and her husband never used. But Max, having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle, has found redemption in an evangelical church, and Zoe needs his permission to take his unborn child ... Jodi Picoult's groundbreaking new novel asks a fundamental question: what does it take to make a family in today's world?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Picoult's overstuffed latest (after House Rules) is stretched just to the breaking point. Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy (the book is accompanied by a CD in Zoe's voice, with awkward lyrics by Picoult) and develops a friendship with guidance counselor Vanessa that eventually turns into love and marriage. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits him against Zoe when she asks Max for permission to use their frozen embryos. Max's discomfort with Zoe's same-sex relationship and his desire to repay Reid and Liddy, who have their own fertility problems, mean a legal battle looms. Picoult abandons her usual efforts to present an equal view of both sides of an issue Max is a pitiful right-wing puppet; Zoe, Vanessa, and their attorney are saintly but her devoted fans will nevertheless find everything they expect: big emotion, diligent research, legal conflict, and a few twists at the end.
Customer Reviews
ITunes let me down
I was really looking forward to reading this book while listening to the accompanying track as described by Jodi in her introduction, which is why I decided to spend the extra money, sadly iTunes have messed up by not allowing you to listen to the track while reading at the same time, rendering it pretty useless!! VERY disappointed by this, you would think that the songs would be saved in the ipod music playlist for this purpose, also in order to continue to listen to the tracks after finishing the book.. Sad :-(