Second Glance: A Novel

Written by Jodi Picoult

Narrated by George Guidall

This breathtaking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult asks: Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

“Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?”

An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there’s nothing spiritual about the property.

Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He’s driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He’s been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancée’s death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult’s enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion.

Hailed by critics as a “master” storyteller (The Washington Post), Picoult once again “pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkable” (Denver Post). Second Glance, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history—Vermont’s eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s—to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us—literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Mar 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781508224259

Jodi Picoult

JODI PICOULT is ’n gewilde en geliefde skrywer van etlike topverkopers, waaronder My Sister’s Keeper, The Storyteller en Small Great Things. Sowat 40 miljoen eksemplare van haar boeke is tans wêreldwyd in druk. Twee van haar boeke is al in Afrikaans vertaal – Die Belydenis (Plain Truth) en Negentien Minute (Nineteen Minutes). Meer as 25 romans het al uit haar pen verskyn en haar werk is al in 34 tale vertaal. My Sister’s Keepers is ook in ’n rolprent omskep. Picoult is al verskeie kere bekroon, onder meer met die New England Book Award.

[Ildikó Gáspár · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I think it's enough to say that i felt involved in the story all along, felt never bored and couldn't put it down until I finished it. The storyteller did a great job with his unique low voice and superb acting skills too. You have to be very watchful though with the lots of names and threads. But once you get the hang of it it, you feel captivated and will not let go.

[Lalitha Moodley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's an intricate story . Real life issues woven into a ghost story. You don't even realize how deep the issues were until you right in the middle of them.

[Pat Parisi · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Ms Picoult is a good story teller, the characters are nicely developed. But I find the books overly long and they could be much shorter.

[Rosie Cooper · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love her books! Great twists & never disappoints

[George Szmaj · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

So much fun to delve into the spirit world then to discover more about eugenics. Interesting combination of ghost and science. I liked it.

[Yvette Bonett · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A story intertwined with seperate lives all forming part of the puzzle which will eventually fall into place! Everything is connected with twists from the past and present glued together with a mix of love and hope struggling against a self proclaimed superiority! However I think it dragged along a bit, but still a very enjoyable story.