Plain Truth

Katie Fisher is eighteen and Amish, raised in a close community that keeps the modern world at arm's length and treats leaving as losing everything: church, home and family. When a baby arrives in the middle of the night, she does what she has always done in a crisis and prays. She falls asleep exhausted, wakes to find the child gone, and takes it as an answer. Then the baby's body is found, and the story turns into a hard collision between a devout way of life and the demands of the law.

Jodi Picoult refuses easy verdicts. The questions she raises about truth, justice and what love costs are argued from several sides, which is why the book has stayed with so many readers. The publisher's blurb describes it as an unforgettable, heartbreaking story, and the Washington Post praised the way it forces readers to think hard about right and wrong. It suits anyone who likes a moral dilemma with real weight behind it.