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Friday 27 July
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Jodi Picoult has created her own genre. She writes edge-of-your-seat stories about everyday people facing extraordinary situations, inviting her readers to wonder: what would I do?
Between the Lines, her first book for young adults, is no exception. Written with her teenage daughter Samantha, who dreamed up the idea for the story, it’s a funny, charming story about what happens when happily ever after ... isn’t.
Between the Lines is for every girl who’s believed, however whimsically, that her one true soulmate lives in the pages of a book. Bookish loner Delilah is on Team Edward. But it’s not him she truly longs for; it’s Prince Oliver, the hero of a fairytale she finds in the library – and in a flight of boundary-crossing fantasy, she gets the chance to help him become real.
Jodi and Samantha share their creative journey in this special event.
Featuring
Samantha van Leer
Samantha van Leer is a junior in high school, who conceived the idea for her first novel, Between the Lines and pitched it to her mum (Jodi Picoult) while she was in the middle of a book tour.
In her spare time, Samantha can be found playing softball, doing contemporary dance, acting and singing in musicals, and cuddling on the ground with her two dogs, Dudley and Oliver – for whom the prince in the fairytale in Between the Lines was named.
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the author of 18 bestselling and widely acclaimed novels, most recently Between the Lines, a novel for younger readers, written in partnership with her teenage daughter, Samantha van Leer. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.
Jodi studied creative writing with at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student.
She has worked as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an eighth grade English teacher – before entering Harvard to pursue a master’s in education. She wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, while she was pregnant with her first child.
Jodi wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her books are translated into 34 languages in 35 countries. Her novels The Pact, Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle and Salem Falls have been made into television movies. My Sister’s Keeper was a major movie, directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz.
Jodi’s latest solo novel is Lone Wolf.