Sing You Home - Jodi Picuolt

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then - to Zoe's surprise - blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of children again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that she and her husband never used. But Max, having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle, has found redemption in an evangelical church, and Zoe needs his permission to take his unborn child ...

I enjoy Picoult as an author, and she is know for writing very good in-depth Chick lit. However i have to pace myself with them as they all will eventually revolve around legal cases which can get a bit to much. However she seems to get better at writing and her books are more about the case and less about the legalities. And this is one great example of that.

Picoult in this novel really gets to the heart of the in-depth characters, more so than some other authors i know. Although a wee bit stereotypical it made it easy to read and relate to. She had the partner who found religion and at first was a bit pushy about praising it to other people. But she did capture this well. And you had the main character who was falling in love with a woman, and her initial thoughts and feelings towards this gave her some extra depth.

The story line was interesting, but a wee bit predictable. Their was not much in this novel that was novel but that did not defer from it being a good read. I really got into this book and it was thought provoking, as most of her novels are.

I really enjoyed reading this book, and it makes for some in depth, thought provoking reading. She did tack on a happy ending and a bit of redemption at the end. But i think she has been criticised previously that some of her books do not give the reader closure and therefore this one ensured the reader got the ending they wanted and expected.