The pact

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Title:

The pact

Author:

Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

ISBN:

9780340963852

9780340976876

Personal Author:

Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

Publication Information:

London : Hodder Paperbacks, 2008.

Physical Description:

480 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

Originally published: New York: W. Morrow, 1998; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.

Includes a conversation with the author.

Abstract:

For 18 years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other. Parents and children alike are best friends so it comes as no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. But one night a call comes from the hospital - Emily has been shot dead.

Subject Term:

Parent and child -- Fiction.

Suicide pacts -- Fiction.

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Summary

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born.

When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself, but a local detective has doubts. And the Hartes and Golds, in a single terrifying moment, must face every parent's worst fear: do we ever really know our children at all?