Leaving time
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jodi Picoult
Edition: Doubleday Large Print Home Library ed.
Series: Doubleday Large Print Home Library; Doubleday Large Print Home Library
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 789
ISBN-13: 9781629532165
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fiction; Mothers and daughters; Missing persons; Grief in animals; Elephants; Research; Animal sanctuaries; Women scientists; Private investigators; Psychics; Desertion and non-support; Large type books
Description: Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment ... or worse. Still Jenna -- now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief -- steadfastly refuses to believe in her mother's desertion. So she decides to approach the two people who might still be able to help her find Alice: a disgraced psychic named Serenity Jones and Virgil Stanhope, the cynical detective who first investigated her mother's disappearance and the death of one of her mother's co-workers. Together these three lonely souls will discover truths destined to forever change their lives.
Notes: "This Large Print Edition, prepared especially for Doubleday Large Print Home Library, contains the complete, unabridged text of the original Publisher's Edition."--Title page verso.