Dancing on broken glass
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ka Hancock
Edition: 1st Gallery Books trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781451637373; 9781451637380
Subjects: Pregnancy; Manic-depressive illness; Marriage; Cancer; Fiction
Description: "Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They're both plagued with faulty genes--he has bipolar disorder; she, a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry. Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work--and they put their commitment in writing. Mickey will take his medication. Lucy won't blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty. She promises patience. Like any marriage, there are good days and bad days--and some very bad days. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. Everything. Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is."--P. [4] of cover.