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Jodi Picoult
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Book Description

3 April 2008
Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case is the state's best witness - but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. Or can she?



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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks; Reprint edition (3 April 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0340935790
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340935798
  • Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 19.7 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (164 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jodi Picoult is not one to shy away from fictional controversy; in fact, the more tangled and messy a moral dilemma appears, the better she likes it. (Daily Mail)

'Picoult, once again, grabs a razor-sharp issue and uses her brilliantly intricate pen to expose all the shades of grey with PERFECTION.' (Cosmopolitan)

'As usual Jodi Picoult manages to bring us a hard-hitting, heartbreaking story. Its brilliantly written with feeling and understanding The characters are believable and you can almost feel their emotions as you read.' (New Books)

Picoult has been incredibly successful in dissecting the pain that family members go through when faced with sensitive and emotive issues (Daily Express)

'This book makes for uncomfortable reading in light of real life school shootings, but the author's meticulous research at Columbine in the USA makes the book all the more powerful and authentic. An outstanding read.' (My Weekly)

Picoult, once again, grabs a razor-sharp issue and uses her brilliantly intricate pen to expose all the shades of grey with PERFECTION. (Cosmopolitan)

'As usual Jodi Picoult manages to bring us a hard-hitting, heartbreaking story. It's brilliantly written with feeling and understanding of how all those involved react to what has happened . . . I love Jodi Picoult's writing and would highly recommend it for both personal and reading groups' (newbooksmag)

About the Author

Jodi Picoult grew up in Nesconset, New York. She received an A.B. in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard. Her previous novels include Keeping Faith, The Pact, and Mercy. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Sticking to what she knows best 17 April 2007
By Zannie
Format:Hardcover
Nineteen Minutes sees the return of defense attorney Jordan McAfee (The Pact and Salem Falls) and Patrick DuCharme (detective from Perfect Match) and is another example of Picoult's skillful psychological and social insight.

The protagonist this time is Peter Houghten, a 17-year-old high school student who has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his classmates. Even his best friend, Josie Cormier has succumbed to peer pressure and is now part of the gang that instigates the abuse. One final act of bullying sends him over the edge and he commits an act of violence that will forever change the lives of the town's residents.

As per the Picoult formula, the town is small where many lives intertwine and the superior court judge assigned to hear the Houghten case is the mother of Josie Cormier, who witnessed the act. Josie is emotionally fragile and the strain of the court case poses a realistic threat to her relationship with her mother, Alex. She claims she can't remember what happened in the last few minutes of Peter's rampage and Peter's parents compound the tension and pressure in the narrative by ceaselessly examining the past to see what they might have done as parents to compel their son to such extremes.

The overriding theme of the novel is the question that do we ever really know the people closest to us? However, it poses more questions than that - what does it mean to be different? Is it ever OK for a victim to strike back? And who really has the right to judge someone else? This is Picoult's most honest, straightforward and meaningful novel yet - if only she could stretch beyond her currently rather contrived plots, she would be a truly great commentator on modern times.
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69 of 71 people found the following review helpful
By Donald Mitchell HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
We've read about too many school shootings. These are intensely sad events as young lives are ended and harmed while sickening fear is permanently released to further separate communities. We all blame the parents for being so clueless.

I wasn't sure I wanted to read a long novel about such an event. But I'm glad I did. Nineteen Minutes takes the bare facts of such an awful day and helps us see the whole experience from every perspective. And the book does so with a kind and gentle heart.

This shifting of the balance of our perceptions is accomplished by several well-performed techniques including many narrators (different students, three parents, the police, the defense attorney, and his wife), connections among the characters, and multiple back stories that reach literally into the womb. The book's theme is far more universal than school shootings: How we grow away from our real selves and the damage that does to us and others.

I was very impressed by the way that Ms. Picoult viewed every character with mostly sympathy, even when you might think of them as being unsympathetic from the facts. Each character is also mildly funny. She doesn't let the tragedy pull us too far away from the realities of everyday life. It's an extraordinary storytelling gift.

If you are like me, you'll probably feel that your faith in people is increased by reading this story rather than the reverse. That reaction also surprised me.

No matter what your age is I think you'll find this book will draw you back into those turbulent teen years when being popular meant way too much. It'll be an intense and self-revealing visit.

Bravo, Ms. Picoult! This is a remarkable book.

Highly recommended.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Interesting Insight 16 May 2007
Format:Hardcover
Jodi Picoult gives the insight into so many different lives/minds and situations. This book showed how people are pushed into scenario's everyday and with the event of school shootings ever more present in American culture i got an insiders view. This felt like a reconstruction of what actually happened and happens in real school shootings. All seemingly fuelled by heirarchy and popularity at school. Even though we are meant to pity the victims in the story i couldnt help be compelled by the shooter and feel his pain more than any parent of the killed, and understood his situation and the attractiveness of guns to easily end a problem.

Another clever story i really enjoyed
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nineteen Minutes
Couldn't put it down. It dealt with a difficult scenario in a very sensitive way anbd provided much food for thought.
Published 1 day ago by Valerie BS
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Jodi always writes amazing books that keep me enthralled for hours. This story is chilling and yet heart warming at the same time
Published 11 days ago by Erin Cornick
5.0 out of 5 stars A thought provoking read, with a twist
For all Picoult fans an absolute must, topical and intreging. Any mother would fine this thought provoking. One of the best I've read. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Cc
4.0 out of 5 stars Really good book!
A great read with twists through out-really recommend this , your able to really get attached to the characters :)
Published 17 days ago by sianagh mcdonald
5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Nineteen Minutes
This is a most thought provoking book. Maybe a book to read it your child is not fitting in. It demonstrates that bullying should never be tolerated. Read more
Published 19 days ago by Mrs VA Banyard Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Stunning just couldn't switch off and have had to have it ripped out of my hands such was the compulsion to read it.
Published 1 month ago by S C Cousins/sccousins@btinternet.com
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping
A fascinating insight into families and relationships, looking at the fallout from terrible happenings. Gripping and terrible in equal measures.
Published 1 month ago by Cl Warburton
5.0 out of 5 stars Makes you think...
I've never known anyone who writes the way Jodi Picoult does. Who'd have thought you could read a book about a 17 year old boy that killed 10 kids at his school, and feel sorry... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Miss Penguin
5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite author
I could not put this book down until I had finished it. The twists and turns run all the way through the book and the ending all makes sense,
Published 1 month ago by jreeveuk
4.0 out of 5 stars Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picout
I read this book several years ago and unfortunately the subject matter is still as relevant and disturbing today as it was then. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Adele204
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