Handle with care
By: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: ISIS; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9780753184240; 9780753184257
Subjects: Osteogenesis imperfecta; Fiction; Patients; Mothers and daughters; Physicians; Malpractice
Description: "Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her obstetrician for wrongful birth - for not having diagnosed Willow's condition early enough in the pregnancy to be able to abort the child. The payout could secure Willow's future. But to get it would mean Charlotte suing her best friend. And standing up in court to declare that she would have prefered that Willow had never been born ... ""--Publisher's description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton.