here's something i borrowed of her site:
"When Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, 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 monetary payouts 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’s suing isn’t just her physician – it’s her best friend.
Handle With Care explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality. When faced with the reality of a fetus who will be disabled, at which point should an OB counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? How disabled is TOO disabled? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love? Would you alienate the rest of your family? Would you be willing to lie to your friends, to your spouse, to a court? And perhaps most difficult of all – would you admit to yourself that you might not actually be lying?"
In my opinion this is one of her best and that is saying a lot cos she rocks my world (read them all apart from picture perfect, change of heart, house rules - released some time now - and harvesting the heart...and wonder woman but not sure if im going to be chasing that down).
Handle with care literally took my breath away. The ending is heart breaking (no pun intended). The book was sad, but also funny and full of such love (that picoults novels often are) but ***SPOILER ALERT*****the ending wow wow wow i wasnt expecting it. basically, at the end, after the huge court/life battle, willow the little girl with OI dies. She goes outside to call her sister in for dinner or something (sorry its been a few days) and then she decides to walk over the ice (pond?) and she's really proud of herself cos she's being careful and she's got into the middle and the ice cracks. she falls into the water and she gets dragged down and cant fight through the cold and the ice. And she's happy because at least this time it wasn't her who broke. Argh you need to read it. Please read it. I've got goosebumps just typing.
For more info about this book and the rest go to www.jodipicoult.com. If you've never read picoult before i recommend them all. you will not be disappointed!!!
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