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'She is the master of her craft . . . and humanity is what Picoult does best' Sunday Telegraph
Andrew Hopkins lovingly raised his daughter Delia on his own, allowing her to believe that they lost Delia's mother in a car accident twenty-seven years ago.
But as…
Why read it?
1 author picked Vanishing Acts as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because it asks more questions than it answers.
Picoult’s approach is always about allowing the reader to enter deeply into what her characters are experiencing, and she handles the issue of kidnapping with the same grace and sensitivity she’s used in approaching other difficult and occasionally taboo subjects.
As Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. What happens when you find out you aren’t who you thought you were? How do you make sense of the people you love and trust morphing into something more sinister? How can…
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