![]() ![]() ![]() Living with the Amish necessitates some adjustments for both parties, but Katie and Ellie become fast friends in spite of their differences. ![]() However, to meet bail stipulations, she volunteers as Katie's guardian (since Kate's strict parents reject her) and moves in with the Fishers. Ellie, who has retreated to Leda's farm in Paradise to reconsider her life-she successfully defends guilty clients-embarks on the case reluctantly: at 39, she wants nothing more than to have a child. Katie Fisher, 18, denies not only having committed the murder but even having borne the baby, whose body is found in the Fishers' calving pen, and she sticks to her story, even when she is quizzed by Ellie Hathaway, the high-powered Philadelphia attorney who undertakes Katie's defense as a favor to Leda, an aunt she and the young woman share. Though it begins as the quietly electrifying story of an unmarried Amish teenager who gives birth to a baby she is accused of then smothering, Picoult's latest (after Keeping Faith) settles into an ordinary trial epic, albeit one centered intriguingly on an Amish dairy farm near Lancaster, Pa. ![]()
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