Jodi Picoult is Britain’s biggest selling female author. Last year she topped the charts with three of her novels. Her latest book Nineteen Minutes, has eerie echoes of the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University, and refers to the time it takes for a seventeen year old misfit to shoot thirty of his fellow pupils. It’s a study of pain, love, bullying and retribution written after research talking to survivors of actual school shootings and those who helped with the aftermath. Jenni talks to Jodi about the uncomfortable questions raised in the book, what it means to be different in our society, and her motivations as a writer.
"Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult is published by Hodder and Stoughton (ISBN 978-0-340-93527-9)
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