or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
12 used & new from £6.50
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Mercy
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

Mercy [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Jodi Picoult (Author), Megan Dodds (Reader)
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
RRP: £19.56
Price: £18.59 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £0.97 (5%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Temporarily out of stock.
Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your account will only be charged when we ship the item.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

6 new from £6.87 6 used from £6.50
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover 72 used & new from £0.01
Paperback £7.99 £5.00 38 used & new from £1.00
Audio Download (Unabridged) £38.47 £20.20
or £3.99 with new Audible.co.uk membership.
Audio Download (Abridged) £19.99 £10.49
or £3.99 with new Audible.co.uk membership.
Paperback (Large Print) £12.95 £12.95 Order it used
ExpandShow more editions and formats

Special Offers and Product Promotions

  • Save up to 80% on more than 40,000 downloadable audiobooks at Audible.co.uk. Listen on your ipod or MP3 player for £3.99.


Frequently Bought Together

Mercy + Handle with Care + The Pact
Total RRP: £35.54
Price For All Three: £27.54

Some of these items are dispatched sooner than the others. Show details

  • This item: Mercy by Jodi Picoult

    Temporarily out of stock.
    Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your account will only be charged when we ship the item.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • The Pact by Jodi Picoult

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Keeping Faith

Keeping Faith

by Jodi Picoult
4.4 out of 5 stars (54)  £4.96
The Tenth Circle

The Tenth Circle

by Jodi Picoult
3.4 out of 5 stars (56)  £5.01
Vanishing Acts

Vanishing Acts

by Jodi Picoult
3.4 out of 5 stars (49)  £5.00
Perfect Match

Perfect Match

by Jodi Picoult
4.0 out of 5 stars (55)  £4.98
Salem Falls

Salem Falls

by Jodi Picoult
4.3 out of 5 stars (83)  £4.97
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (5 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184456214X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844562145
  • Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 12 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 599,511 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in this category:

    #88 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > P > Picoult, Jodi

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Review

'What could have been a competent, topical novel about a mercy killing becomes, in Picoult's hands, an inspired meditation on love… Picoult pays loving attention to her central characters, fashioning a sensitive exploration of the balance of love.' (Publishers Weekly )

'MERCY, a quietly powerful book that examines the boundaries of love and loyalty, courage and forgiveness… Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships.' (Boston Globe )

'A graceful stylist, Picoult entertains her readers not only with feel-good storytelling and irresistible characters but with consideration of such serious moral dilemmas as euthanasia and forgiveness.' (Booklist )

Product Description

Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town's residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest.



The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he'd grant all her wishes… even the one that meant taking her life.



Into this charged atmosphere drifts Mia, a new assistant at Allie's floral shop, for whom Cam feels an instant and inexplicable attraction. While he aids the prosecution in preparing the case against Jamie, who killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy, Cam finds himself betraying his own wife.
See all Product Description

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(24)
(13)
(10)
(9)
(5)
(5)
(4)
(4)
(3)
(3)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Mercy
35% buy the item featured on this page:
Mercy 2.8 out of 5 stars (52)
£18.59
Handle with Care
20% buy
Handle with Care 4.2 out of 5 stars (36)
£3.99
The Pact
17% buy
The Pact 4.3 out of 5 stars (163)
£4.96
Nineteen Minutes
15% buy
Nineteen Minutes 4.3 out of 5 stars (102)
£4.98
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

52 Reviews
5 star:
 (8)
4 star:
 (7)
3 star:
 (15)
2 star:
 (13)
1 star:
 (9)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
2.8 out of 5 stars (52 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not the best I've read, 17 Aug 2006
By Elizabeth Lund - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Mercy (Hardcover)
I've read all of Jodi Picoults books and I am usually engrossed by the story. However this ione was a disappointment. It was a predictable story with not much excitement. If you are a fan do not read this as you will be left feeling hard done by.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars completely real with a touch of magic, 12 May 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: Mercy (Paperback)
this is a novel i have really longed to read and i have not been disapointed. jodi picoult brings home the goods as always! a man ends the painful life of his wife who has a terminal illness because he loves her too much to see her in pain. He does it in a town where his cousin is the police chief and hopes for compassion although he still has to stand trial and face the prejudices of the New England towns folk.This story will make you cry because it touches onto things that have some relevances to everyones lives and yet in true Jodi Picoult style has an aspect of magic and a mini miracle which we all long to find. Totally absorbing, showing strength of human character and how deeply someone and love.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
34 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars MEA CULPA, 20 Oct 2002
By Nancy Martin (Pennsylvania (orig. NY)) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)   
This review is from: Mercy (Hardcover)
I can't remember reading a book where all the characters had such undesirable traits that reading any further became an effort. The only character who was somewhat bearable was a cat and that's probably because it spent its time either eating or hidden in someone's backpack serving as a parallel to everything else that's hidden away in this small town of Wheelock, MA.

I'm already a Jodi Picoult fan having read and liked four of her other books -- The Pact, Keeping Faith, Plain Truth and Salem Falls -- so when I say that I didn't enjoy this book at all, I have a good basis for comparison. Never before have I read a book where I felt so detached from each and every character. The wife Allie has no backbone, the husband Cam has no loyalty, the mistress Mia has no values, the mercy killer Jamie has no fortitude, his dead wife Maggie was selfish, Cam's mother Ellen is a wacko.....I could go on and on.

The backdrop of the story is one of intense love -- so intense that your emotions take over your senses. There's a case of a mercy killing, another story of a cheating spouse and a courtroom scene where all the scenarios are played out. The events leading up to and after the killing are all impulsive -- sometimes so impulsive that they're hard to believe. There are other parts in the book where reality is suspended and mysticism takes over. I'm always at a loss when an author resorts to this.

Probably the biggest complaint I have is the intense lack of editing. I can't stand when I'm reading a book and two people are having a conversation yet the name you're reading on the typewritten page is NOT the name of the person who is actually doing the talking. This happened on three separate occasions and after awhile, it only added to my overall confusion and lack of continuity of my reading experience. I'm usually not this hard when reviewing a book and it could be the fact that I read it in the midst of our great American tragedy which could have altered my mood considerably. For that reason, I've given it three stars as opposed to the two stars which I had originally intended. Somehow though, I don't think it was my mood...the book just wasn't that enjoyable for me.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Everyone has their off days
Mercy focuses on the issue of euthanasia, and the balance of love within a relationship. The storyline follows two couples, Allie and Cam McDonald, and Jamie and Maggie McDonald... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Amy Pearce

4.0 out of 5 stars Very dislikable characters
This book was fairly good, but I hated 3 out of 4 of the characters until more than halfway through the book. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rachel Ropper

2.0 out of 5 stars Slow and Disappointing
This is my 4th Jodi Picoult and I just couldn't get into it. I struggled through about half of the book and then gave up which I have NEVER done on any of the other Jodi Picoult... Read more
Published 3 months ago by I. Adams

1.0 out of 5 stars The Quality of Mercy? Strained ;-)
This was my first Jodi Picoult - I understand from other reviewers that it is an early work and not regarded as her best. Read more
Published 11 months ago by LiztheWhizz

3.0 out of 5 stars Mercy
Cam Macdonald has spent his life doing what other people want him to do, or what it is his duty to do. Read more
Published 12 months ago by L Murphy

3.0 out of 5 stars a better read
I much prefered this to "The Tenth Circle" although I must say that I skimread some of the passages about the first Cameron. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Alison Mallaghan

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite good but not her best
I have read 5 other of Jodi Picoult's book, all of which I have really enjoyed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, although I did think the ending was quite abrupt and... Read more
Published 15 months ago by L. A. Rogers

2.0 out of 5 stars Formulaic
I first discovered this author two years ago and have enjoyed reading every one of the previous six novels, which I have read so far. Read more
Published 16 months ago by LindyLouMac

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Drawn Out
This is the first Picoult novelI have read and I would read another. The characters are well drawn and you can feel some empathy for them, then suddenly they become 2dimensional... Read more
Published 17 months ago by princess_pinchie

3.0 out of 5 stars Tad too long
A well structured tale of only ordinary proportions. Big strong men acting weak and weak women with cats acting strong was my first thought. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mark Dickens

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject









i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.