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Plain Truth | 
 enlarge | Author: Picoult Jodi
Publisher: Flame
Category: Book
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 6703
Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0340835478
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780340835470
ASIN: 0340835478
Publication Date: October 25, 2004
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Condition: Crisp copy with a little cover wear to bottom corners like it has been tucked in a pocket or bag.
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 She's won me over again! July 18, 2008
L. Scarpati (Yorkshire, England)
I had gone through a phase of being quite bored of Picoult's novels. I had read through 8 in a past pace devouring more until I hit a wall with Second Glance. I had put it down, unable to get into it-which was so unlike me.
I'm going to give it another go now after reading Plain Truth. I read it whilst on holiday and found it to be an intricately woven plot line that was quite an emotional read, as well as being quite educational.
It's about an Amish girl who sneeks into her parents barn in the middle of the night to give birth to a child. She prays to God that it will go away and save her from trouble, she falls asleep after the labour to find that the child has indeed vanished. She then goes back to bed and denies to herself that the baby ever existed.
The child is found dead later the next day and the story unfolds as her lawyer tries to prevent her from being charged with its murder.
Picolt is exceptionally gifted and unravelling relationships between her characters and does so in this book with ease.
I loved every page of it and if you've never read any of her novels before, this is the perfect start to your love affair with Picoult's charm as a story teller.
Fascinating read about a topical subject April 29, 2008
UK reader (Nr Manchester, UK)
This was my first Jodi Picoult. I had heard about her but didn't think she would be my kind of writer. She was. I was instantly enthralled and interested.
Picked the book up as it was the subject which first appealed - the Amish are a closed society but very interesting, offering a different perspective on modern living. I think the subjects (the Amish religion and the pregnancy) was dealt with sensitively and hopefully removed some taboos.
 Fascinating and couldn't put it down! March 26, 2008
L. H. Healy (Hertfordshire, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Really enjoyed this, my first Jodi Picoult novel. Kind of hesitated with buying her novels in the past, wasn't quite sure what to expect, think I had some preconceptions. This particular one was passed on to me by a friend, and I wanted to give it a go.
I really couldn't put this one down and stayed up too late to finish it, had to know the ending! Certainly a page turner. I found it a gripping and informative read, I liked the main characters, but in particular Katie, and I was impressed by the way in which the author gives us an insight into Amish life and culture, and this gave the novel a very interesting and different perspective and background for the events to play out again, and it also added many traditions and circumstances which therefore gives the events and the trial a different slant. I may investigate some of her other works now.
Plain enjoyable March 19, 2008
Hamstead (Midlands UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Amish teenager Katie Fisher gives birth to a baby in the barn of the family's dairy farm. Soon after the baby is discovered dead and Katie is charged with murder. Ellie, a lawyer in danger of burning out and on the run from a relationship that's going nowhere, finds herself called in to defend Katie in court. How did the baby die? Who's the father?
This is a beautifully written novel and for me, at least, it was a page turner. There are some moments of great poignancy and I loved the supernatural twist in the tale and wonder if the author herself believes in ghosts. I did guess the final part of the plot element right from the get-go, but then I always know whodunnit when I read whodunnits. It's like a dowsing rod reaction. I see the name and I know straight away without clues. Ellie's journey in the tale was just a little predictable, but I could take it. I became very fond of Katie. I know nothing about the Amish. I felt after reading the book that I had been enlightened, although of course I realise it's fiction and the real deal may be different and a lot more complicated.
This is my fourth Picoult novel and although it has similarities to the other three I've read, it did have enough differences to keep it from being a clone this time around. Five stars from a very satisfied reader and on to the next!
Not a Picoult fan, but liked this March 18, 2008
Morena
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Never read a Jodi Picoult novel before or since, and don't really have a desire to, but I'll always remember stumbling across this on holiday and finding it surprisingly enjoyable. I found the main character of Katie, the Amish girl, sympathetically portrayed in a way that rang true, and the same for the Amish community in general, of whom I knew next-to-nothing about before reading Plain Truth. Picoult managed to create an interesting little world to immerse yourself in, while also keeping the plot spinning. She does well to keep the reader's mind open and largely sympathetically inclined towards the Amish, instead of painting them simply as repressed oddballs which would have been a lot more limiting. It's not a work of great art, or an ingenious mystery, but you could certainly do worse if you find yourself with some spare hours to idle away.
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