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Exploring the complexities of race relations in modern times, Jodi Picoult challenges us with ideas about justice, empathy and free will. Written with a raw honesty, this audiobook delves into deeply emotional issues about birth and death with an emotional fix that will stay with you long after the last words are spoken.

The new audiobook from number one best-selling author Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility.

When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.

Small Great Things is about prejudice and power; it is about that which divides and unites us. It is about opening your eyes.

©2016 Jodi Picoult (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton African American Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Medical Metaphysical & Visionary Thought-Provoking Funny

Critic reviews

"It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes." ( Financial Times)
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wonderful in absolutely every single way. Highly recommended. Engaging characters gripping storyline. It's a definite must read for all.

an exceptional read

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Jodi' s makes for uncomfortable listening, but it is truth and truth should not be ignored because it is difficult to hear!

Brave and truthful

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Very good, very thought provoking and although the final chapter initially seems a bit much, "leopards don't change their spots" and all that, think again maybe human can. Would be a great book club read.

Worth reading

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It was my first audio book to read and it didn't disappoint. Readers were super, keeping me totally engaged from start to finish.

Absolutely loved it

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What three words best describe the narrators’s voice?

Reactive, engaging, wet sounding lip smacking is annoying

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No.

Any additional comments?

Interesting and thought provoking but, as usual with Jodi Picoult, a little loose and far fetched. I do also wish audible would edit out the lip smacking noises with some readers, it just gets distracting and irritating, a shame for an otherwise brilliant performance.

Good but irritating

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