LEAVING TIME

Book ID/图书代码： 01240012B58328

English Summary/英文概要： For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote most of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest. The first is a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons - only to later doubt her gifts. The second is a jaded private detective who originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十几年来，詹娜•麦特卡夫一直无法停止思念和担忧自己的母亲爱丽丝，在经历了一场可怕的事故后，爱丽丝便从此消失了。詹娜一直不愿承认自己遭到了母亲的抛弃，她一直定期的在网络上寻找母亲的消息，并专研爱丽丝旧日记本上的内容。作为一名主要研究大象群体的悲伤的科学家，爱丽丝所写下的多数报告均是围绕其所深爱的动物们，詹娜却渴望能够从日记中找寻到关于爱丽丝所在地的蛛丝马迹。在调查过程中，詹娜因为无法找寻到真相而倍感绝望，却也同时获得了两名最意外盟友的帮助。一位是靠寻找失踪人事而声名远播的通灵师---不过随后她更多的会是怀疑自己的能力。而第二位则是一名疲惫的私家侦探，她从一开始便参与了爱丽丝案件的调查，因为这一案件以某种奇怪的方式与她一名同事的死亡有着千丝万缕的联系。随着这三人对爱丽丝失踪案件展开调查，她们也逐渐意识到，她们或许将不得不面对更为严峻的答案。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：This week’s Publishers Weekly! A fabulous mention of LEAVING TIME by Jodi Picoult:

Breakout Bestsellers

This ‘Time’, Picoult Steps Out with a New Publisher

In September 2012, Jodi Picoult announced that after publishing 19 books with Atria, she’d signed a three-book deal with Ballantine. The first of those books, Leaving Time, tops our Hardcover Fiction list this week with just over 37K units sold. Here’s how that figure stacks up against her most recent opening-week numbers.

Leaving Time 2014 37,215
The Storyteller 2013 30,314
Lone Wolf 2012 38,586
Sing You Home 2011 50,322
House Rules 2010 79,966

About the Author/作者介绍： 乔迪•皮考特在纽约州内斯康赛特市。于普林斯顿大学获得创造性写作学士学位，哈佛大学获得教育学学士学位。著有小说《故事人》《家规》《九十分钟》及《妹妹看护人》。作者现与丈夫及三名孩子居住在新罕布什尔州。乔迪的英国网站：www.jodipicoult.co.uk，也可通过脸书和推特联系上作者本人，此外，她还拥有一个专属Youtube频道：www.youtube.com/user/JodiPicoultOfficial。

Jodi Picoult grew up in Nesconset, New York. She received an A.B. in creative writing from Princeton and a master’s degree in education from Harvard. Her previous novels include THE STORYTELLER, HOUSE RULES, NINETEEN MINUTES, and MY SISTER’S KEEPER. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Jodi’s UK website is www.jodipicoult.co.uk and she can be found on Facebook and Twitter at facebook.com/JodiPicoultUK and twitter.com/jodipicoult. She also has a YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/JodiPicoultOfficial.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights of LEAVING TIME sold to date: ANZ via agent (Allen and Unwin), Chinese (Commercial Press); Dutch (House of Books), German (Random House), Hebrew (Kinneret), Hungarian (Athenaeum), Polish (Proszynski Media), Portuguese/Brazil (Nova Conceito), Portuguese/Portugal (Presença), Russian (Hemiro), UK via agent (Hodder).

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