Hi All,

It’s almost HERE! Tomorrow is the pub date for Wish You Were Here. It’s the novel I didn’t plan to write… born from my own experience of lockdown for 15 months during Covid, because of asthma. I wrote the novel because I needed to remind myself of who I was when my world turned upside down, and sorting out the lessons of 2020 was therapeutic for me. I didn’t think I was going to publish it…until a couple writer friends read it and said that it was so validating for them after a year of isolation and unease. I thought: “What if this could be therapeutic for other people, too?” So I hope you enjoy my story about a woman whose life is upended by the pandemic - and who learns a lot about herself along the way, as all of us did. COVID isn’t going away anytime soon (hello, Omicron!) so we all have to learn how to start moving about the world as safely as we can. May this novel be a blueprint for that journey, and may it bring both comfort and hope. 

XO,
Jodi

Hardcover editions of Wish You Were Here will be pre-signed by Jodi.
Jodi will be in conversation with a special guest at each event, discussing her writing career and Wish You Were Here.

US EVENTS

Monday, November 29th, VIRTUAL EVENT with the JCC Consortium - 8:00 PM EST
In conversation with Emily Henry
Hosted by the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta

Tuesday, November 30th, Long Island, NY - 7:30 PM EST
In conversation with Julianna Margulies
Long Island LitFest at Landmark on Main Street
232 Main St #1, Port Washington, NY 11050

Wednesday, December 1st, Washington, DC - 6:45 PM EST
In conversation with Brigid Kemmerer
Smithsonian Associates at Rasmuson Theater
4th St & Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024

Thursday, December 2nd, Hartford, CT - 7:00 PM EST
In conversation with Ann Leary
Mark Twain House and Museum at Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT

Friday, December 3rd, Hanover, NH - 7:00 PM EST
In conversation with Chris Bohjalian
Norwich Bookstore at The Hanover Inn
2 E Wheelock St, Hanover, NH 03755

Monday, December 6th, Boston, MA - 6:00 PM EST
In conversation with Elin Hilderbrand
Brookline Booksmith at Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446

Tuesday, December 7th, Cuyahoga, OH - 7:00 PM EST
In conversation with Ron Block
Cuyahoga Public Library at Parma-Snow Branch Auditorium
2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134

Wednesday, December 8, Oconomowoc Arts Center, Oconomowoc, WI - 7:00 PM CST
In conversation with Christina Clancy
Boswell Books at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union
41 E Forest St, Oconomowoc, WI 53066

Friday, December 10th, Corte Madera, CA - 1:00 PM PST
In conversation with Stephanie Garber
Book Passage Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925

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Thursday, November 25th. Virtual event streaming in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa
Every ticket will include a copy of Wish You Were Here.

Preorder a copy of Wish You Were Here from a retailer of your choice and complete this form to instantly receive digital bonus gifts, including an exclusive prequel short story “Broken Things,” featuring the main character from Wish You Were Here, photographs from Jodi’s trip to the Galapagos Islands, special Zoom and mobile backgrounds, plus digital postcards and bookmarks!

Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galapagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time.

But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes.

Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they’d booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders.

In the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin’s theory of natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.

Available in the US and Canada on 11/30/21
Now available in the UK, Australia and NZ.

The NEW paperback edition is now available for purchase! It includes a Q&A with Jodi and Jojo Moyes, plus an excerpt from Wish You Were Here!

Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong.

Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, her beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula, where she helps ease the transition between life and death for patients in hospice.

But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a job she once studied for, but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now, when it seems that fate is offering her second chances, she is not as sure of the choice she once made.
Ask Jodi: Answers To Your Questions 

Q: What are you listening to?
JP: Red, Taylor’s version, and Adele.

Q: What are you reading?
JP: Ann Leary’s upcoming The Foundling, SM Gaither’s Shadows and Crowns series, and Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon.

Q: What are you watching?
JP: The Wheel of Time and The Great. 

I am SO excited to reveal this news!! My new novel Wish You Were Here is going to be a Netflix film! Stay tuned for details.

I'm so excited for this book (Wish You Were Here), I really am!!! I've asked (as every year) my husband to get me the new Jodi Picoult book...it's the best feeling opening that hardback on Christmas morning and smelling the pages...waiting for night to come so I can soak into the story ❤️❤️❤️❤️.

Order your paperback copy of international #1 bestseller, A Spark of Light, which includes a Q&A with Jodi and book club discussion questions.

Congratulations to Gaby, this month's free signed book winner.

Each month, one person will be chosen from my newsletter subscribers or Facebook fans as a winner of a free signed edition of my latest book.

Mine (Wish You Were Here) arrived today. I am SO excited to start reading it!! Jodi you are my favorite author and I love all your books. Your style of writing hooks me in from the start and I get so emotionally involved and invested. When I finish I can’t read another book for a while as I’m grieving the characters from the one I’ve just read. Amazing talent. Thank you for sharing it with us 😀.

The paperback edition includes a reading group guide plus a Q&A with author Celeste Ng!

I loved it so much (Wish You Were Here), definitely one of my favorite books of yours and of this year! Thank you 💕.

Just started it (Wish You Were Here) and cannot put it down 🔥. This book is my perfect weekend.

NPR

Good Morning America.
“Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tackles a not-so-fictitious ‘what if.’ What if your life was going well and then a virus came and messed everything up? For Diana O'Toole, a Sotheby's art specialist aspiring to be married by 30 to her boyfriend Finn, that's what happened. When Finn stays to fight the outbreak at the hospital, Diana takes their planned vacation alone and gets stuck in the Galapagos Islands, home of Darwin's theories, where she changes her worldview forever.”

CNN
“Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
The bestselling author (Small Great Things) returns with the story of a young art auction consultant who finds herself alone and quarantined in the Galapagos Islands after her surgical resident boyfriend cancels the trip to deal with the pandemic back in New York. From there, she enters new relationships and faces a not always pleasant journey of self-discovery.”

Philadelphia Magazine
“Jodi Picoult’s Wish You Were Here, a beautifully written novel about a young girl who’s got it all until a global pandemic strikes and she reevaluates her life. Need I say more?”

Newsday

The Guardian

Minneapolis Star Tribune

The Skimm