Handle With Care
How far would you go to take care of someone you love?
About the book
Jodi Picoult's new bestseller explores the vexed moral dilemmas faced by the parents of a severely disabled child: when faced with the reality of a foetus that will be disabled, at which point should an obstetrician counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love?
'Picoult is a best-seller for good reason - tight plots and a style that reads easily, but is never glib.' - Marie Clarie, UK
'Picoult has a remarkable ability to make us share her characters' feelings.' - People
'It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.' - Financial Times
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Synopsis
When Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe's daughter, Willow, is born with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), they are devastated - she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain.
As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow's medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the financial payout might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow.
But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she'd known about the disability in advance - words that her husband can't abide, that Willow will hear and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. And the ob/gyn she is suing isn't just her physician - it's her best friend.
Competition
Purchase a copy of the new novel by Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care, keep your receipt - and enter the competition here before 30 June 2009, and you could be on your way to meet Jodi in the USA!
