Their parents are best friends (or rather, their mothers are, and their fathers have been dragged into the friendship by proxy). Emily Gold and Chris Hart are teenagers in love, who have spent their whole life knowing each other. The novel follows two families, the Harts and the Golds. But I remember reading this book for the first time around the time that this case was still being investigated, and everything was so eerily similar, it was almost like I was living through the trial myself just by being in a country where something similar had just happened. This case is old now, and remains unsolved. The girl was pronounced dead, and had died on impact with the rocks. The one who was alive claimed that it was a suicide pact, and that he too was meant to die. I bought and read this book at a tumultuous time in Malta, when a young couple where found at the foot of a cliff towards the North of the island, one of them dead, one of them alive. This is the second time I’ve actually read this book, and my second Jodi Picoult novel.
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