Handle With Care - Softcover

Picoult, Jodi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501106147 ISBN 13: 9781501106149

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2015

Synopsis

When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1New York Times bestselling author, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King).

Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they’d been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of “luckier” parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it’s all worth it because Willow is, funny as it seems, perfect. She’s smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.

Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow’s illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?

Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, Handle with Care is an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it.

About this title

Review:

Enthralling family drama . . . seasoned with medicine, law and love (Woman & Home)

Picoult's pitch and pace are masterly and hardly conducive to a good night's sleep (Financial Times)

Impossible to put down and stayed in my mind long after I had finished (Observer)

Superb, many-stranded, and grimly topical (The Times)

You won't want to sleep until you find out what happens (Heat)

Book Description:

How far would you go to take care of someone you love? The heartbreaking new bestseller from number one author Jodi Picoult

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1501106147
• ISBN 13: 9781501106149
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 648