Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult talks to Harriett Gilbert in front of an audience about her novel My Sister's Keeper.
In September's edition of World Book Club superstar US novelist Jodi Picoult talks about her heart-rending novel My Sister's Keeper.
A searing examination of what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person - My Sister's Keeper confronts the question of whether it is morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child鈥檚 life.
In the programme Jodi talks with disarming openness about the near tragedy in her own life that helped to drive her to write the novel and she explains why for her writing feels like a form of schizophrenia.
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- Sat 1 Sep 2012 21:05GMT麻豆社 World Service Online
- Sun 2 Sep 2012 02:05GMT麻豆社 World Service Online
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