HANDLE WITH CARE

Charlotte O’Keefe’s daughter Willow is born with a very severe form of brittle bone disease. Willow will have hundreds of breaks over the course of a lifetime. After years of caring for Willow, the family is close to financial ruin, so Charlotte files a wrongful birth suit against her doctor – who is also her best friend – for the monetary payouts which might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. To go through with the case she has to say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she’d known about the disability in advance. How far would you go to take care of someone you love? And would you admit to yourself that you might not actually be lying? Reviews''Jodi Picoult is not one to shy away from fictional controversy; in fact, the more tangled and messy a moral dilemma appears, the better she likes it. Daily Mail ''Impossible to put down and stayed in my mind long after I had finished'' Observer ''Superb, many-stranded, and grimly topical'' The Times ''Picoult has an uncanny knack of dreaming up moral dilemmas that you cannot ignore: you must know the resolution . . . A challenging and clever read'' Sunday Express ''Dark, serious books that explore family relationships and scary moral dilemmas involving religion, crime and politics'' Heat