Title: Plain
Truth
Author:
Jodi Picoult
Pages: 464
Release Date: October
25
th 2004
Format: Paperback
Buy it: AmazonAdd it: Goodreads Synopsis: From the
bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of
a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the
heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm.
The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes
Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more
shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old
Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother,
took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney,
comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide -- and
for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice
very different from her own. Delving deep inside the world of those who live
"plain," Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. And as
she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within -- to confront
her own fears and desires when a man from her past re-enters her life.
My Review:
I originally read this book about 10 years ago and even though the plot is sad
I enjoyed it.
Katie had been sneaking away from her Amish home with the
help of her mother to visit her brother who had left the Amish community
and these she meets a boy and they grow close
and do what any normal 18 year old does and they sleep together, this results
in Katie getting pregnant but she doesn’t tell anyone about the pregnancy and
pretends that it never happened.
One night she goes into labour and she sneaks off into the
barn and gives birth but this baby does not survive and Katie hides the baby,
this has the police getting involved and 18 year old Katie is charged with
murdering her newborn baby and it is Ellie job to prove that Katie never killed
her child.
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