Waterstones Handle with Care
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER' Superb, many stranded and grimly topical' The Times Five years ago, Charlotte O' Keefe had everything she could want: a loving husband, a wonderful daughter and another child on the way. But when Willow was born with brittle bone disease, this perfect life shattered before her eyes. Now, as the years have gone by and the costs to care for Willow have mounted up, the family has begun to falter under the pressure of caring for their sick child. In Charlotte's eyes, only one person could have stopped this from happening: Piper, her obstetrician and best friend, who didn't advise Charlotte that she might want to terminate the pregnancy. Now, as she stands in court, she must defend the unthinkable. That she would have chosen for her daughter to not be born. International bestselling author Jodi Picoult explores the complexities of a mother's love in this topical and emotional bestseller. MAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now. Waterstones Handle with Care - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781444754629
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ISBN: 9781444754629
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Author: judes
Rating: 5
Review: really enjoyed this book as I learned a lot about osteogenesis imperfecta
Author: Boingboing
Rating: 3
Review: Jodi Picoult writes very successful 'best-sellers' but reading 'Handle With Care', I couldn't help but think I'd read it all before. The plot - family with sick daughter gets into big ethical courtroom drama - is straight out of 'My Sister's Keeper' and the multi-voiced multi-point of view narrative is straight out of lots of her books. In this case the family have a daughter with a severe bone deformity called Osteogenesis Imperfecta and the legal case revolves around whether the doctor who did her mid-pregnancy ultrasound scan should have known that something was wrong and could have advised the parents early enough for them to choose to abort the foetus. The twist is that the aforementioned doctor is the mother's best friend. The book raises issues around friendship, family, self-harm and pro-life versus pro-choice topics. It does succeed in doing this without being too preachy or without taking 'sides' but the premise just seemed really silly to me. In order to gain financial security for her daughter's future, the mother - Charlotte - wants to sue her best friend for so-called 'wrongful birth'. The story is delivered by at least five characters - mother, father, sister, doctor and lawyer - but there's no distinction between those voices. They all write in the same tone, I found myself repeatedly forgetting who was narrating because there was just no difference between them. And with 5 voices, you get an overly long book with a lot of repetition. Those who love this kind of book will love this. Those who are not so keen may find it all a bit boring. And the ending turns out to be completely unnecessary.
