THE ROAD LESS TAKEN
Jodi Picoult hasn’t really left her home in New Hampshire much since March 2020, but she’s been quite busy, thank you very much. ‘Quite busy’ in her world involves simultaneously co-authoring a novel, writing a piece of musical theatre and releasing her latest novel, The Book of Two Ways. Just to be clear.
It’s lunchtime in the United States when we meet on Zoom and, in spite of her gruelling schedule, the woman on my screen is smiling, her trademark red curls in two plaits over her shoulders.
Jodi’s latest novel follows the journey of Dawn Edelstein, a death doula who comes close to dying in an aeroplane crash. She survives, but in what she believed would be her last moments she found herself thinking about the man and life she left behind in
