WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE IF POSSIBLE - SOFT COVER LARGE SIZE EDITION-NO INSCRIPTIONS OR TEARSLeaving Time. The gripping story of a daughter searching for her missing mother - one of Jodi Picoult's most powerful and affecting novels yet. Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances