A spark of light : a novel

Author

Jodi Picoult

Call Number

• COMPACT DISC FICTION PICO (CEN, EAS, OSH)

Edition

Unabridged.

Performers

Read by Bahni Turpin, with a note read by the author.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Random House Audio, [2018]

Physical Description

12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. Apro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the cross hairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day"--

Notes

Compact disc.

Title from container.