Sing You Home

by Jodi Picoult

Paperback, 480 pages
Released: April 2011

Words: Lezly Herbert

Music therapist Zoe works in hospitals and in nursing homes, helping to make life more bearable for the inhabitants. Zoe believes that music is the language of memory and that every life has a soundtrack.

Jodi Picoult has gone further than any other novelist and created a CD (that can be downloaded from www.jodipicoult.com.au) that helps bring her book to life.

When Zoe loses her baby at 28 weeks after ten years of trying, her hopes to have a child are dashed and her marriage to Max also ends. Max moves in to live with his brother and his wife who are having similar problems with carrying a baby to full term and Zoe throws herself into her work, helping people less fortunate than herself with her music. When guidance officer Vanessa asks Zoe to help a teenager who has attempted suicide, the two women become close friends. Zoe and Vanessa’s affection for each other deepens and they actually get married and want to have a child. They come up with an idea, but need the cooperation of Max who has joined The Church of Eternal Glory.

Jodi Picoult’s novels usually deal with ethical issues and utilises multiple viewpoints by allowing different characters to tell their sides of the story. Sing You Home brings to life the moral ambiguity a contemporary relationship as the characters Zoe, Max and Vanessa take turns to tell the story and the personal becomes highly political.

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