Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock.ĭerek writes: I'm a huge fan of Jodi Picoult but I have to confess that I wasn't sure I had the strength for Handle With Care. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects. What rights do parents or doctors have to terminate a life? How disabled is too disabled? As a parent, how far would you go to save someone you love? Handle with Care is an absorbing narrative which also questions the basis of medical ethics and of personal morality.
And the obstetrician she's suing isn't just her physician - she's her best friend. But it means that Charlotte has to say in a court of law that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she had known about the disability in advance. As the family struggles to cover medical expenses, her mother, Charlotte, decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician for the compensation which might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow.
(Nov.Willow O'Keefe is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which means she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, and a lifetime of pain. As always, Picoult is eminently readable, though even the author’s fans will find some of this wanting. While a major plot twist feels both contrived and implausible, it serves to examine how catastrophes can strain the characters’ relationships while time apart can inspire complex soul-searching. In the Galápagos, Diana befriends a teenage girl, begins an affair with the girl’s father, and second-guesses her conformist, status-oriented life plans. One couldn’t ask for more opposite places: the isolated Pacific Ocean islands with native iguanas, prehistoric turtles, and exotic flora and fauna, and the grim world of packed ICU wards, staff burnout, and the debilitating reality of an onslaught of deaths that cannot be stopped or prevented. But Finn, a surgeon, has just been informed he cannot take their planned Galápagos Islands vacation because the hospital needs all hands on deck for the predicted inundation of virus-infected patients. Diana O’Toole, an associate specialist with Sotheby’s, is on the verge of closing a career-changing deal and expecting her boyfriend, Finn, to propose. It’s March 13, 2020, in New York City, the day after Broadway theaters shut down because of a new contagious virus. Picoult’s beguiling page-turner revisits the premise of two alternate worlds, as explored in 2020’s The Book of Two Ways, this time with the Covid-19 pandemic as a backdrop.
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