Deal with with Care: A Novel

When Willow is born with extreme osteogenesis imperfecta, her dad and mom are devastated – she’s going to undergo tons of of damaged bones as she grows, a lifetime of ache. On this provocative story from the number-one New York Instances best-selling creator, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King).

Each expectant dad or mum will inform you that they do not need an ideal child, only a wholesome one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have requested for a wholesome child, too, in the event that they’d been given the selection. As a substitute their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting payments, the pitying stares of “luckier” dad and mom, and, perhaps worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their baby had been born wholesome? Nevertheless it’s all price it as a result of Willow is, humorous because it appears, good. She’s good as a whip, on her approach to being as fairly as her mom, sort, courageous, and, for a five-year-old, an unexpectedly deep supply of knowledge. Willow is Willow, in illness and in well being.

All the things modifications, although, after a sequence of occasions forces Charlotte and her husband to confront essentially the most critical what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had identified earlier of Willow’s sickness? What if issues may have been totally different? What if their beloved Willow had by no means been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte should ask herself these questions and yet one more: What constitutes a useful life?

Emotionally riveting and profoundly transferring, Deal with with Care is an unforgettable novel concerning the fragility of life and the lengths we’ll go to guard it.