![]() Nina Frost is an Assistant District Attorney who prosecutes child molesters. The actions of these perverts have almost always changed the paths of, and in many cases even ruined, the lives of the victims. The theme is made even more topical in these present times by scandals erupting almost daily about priests, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, who have taken advantage of their privileged position to gratify their own desires at the expense of a child's innocence. Perfect Match deals with a truly unpleasant subject: the sexual abuse of a child. She has a first hand experience of the unique, wrenching love of a mother for her child and so can incorporate that emotion into her books and, in turn, manipulate the emotions of those reading her work. She writes about family and relationships and it is the good fortune of her readers that she became a mother. This success generated her ambition to become a writer. ![]() ![]() A former teacher, Picoult was first published when she was in college. ![]() Certainly the legal and medical ferreting of facts she must have performed for this oeuvre is a credit to her. Jodi Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whale, Harvesting the Heart, Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, Keeping Faith, Plain Truth, Salem Falls) prides herself on the painstaking research she undertakes for her novels. ![]()
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