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Handle with care : a novel

After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O'Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life.

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  • "Handle with care"@pl
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  • ""Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her obstetrician for wrongful birth - for not having diagnosed Willow's condition early enough in the pregnancy to be able to abort the child. The payout could secure Willow's future. But to get it would mean Charlotte suing her best friend. And standing up in court to declare that she would have prefered that Willow had never been born ... ""--Publisher's description."
  • "Willow, ihr lang ersehntes Kind, ist perfekt. Das ist das Erste, was Charlotte O'Keefe hört, als sie ihr Baby auf dem Ultraschallbild sieht. Ja, es ist perfekt. Daran ändert auch Willows Krankheit nichts. Charlotte liebt ihr Kind abgöttisch und will nur eines: es beschützen. Denn Willow braucht allen Schutz der Welt. Beim kleinsten Stoss brechen ihre Knochen. Doch auch ihr Herz kann brechen. Genau das scheint Charlotte zu vergessen, als sie vor Gericht das Geld für die richtige Behandlung erkämpfen will. Sie verklagt ihre Frauenärztin. Die Krankheit hätte schon zu Beginn der Schwangerschaft erkannt - und die Eltern gewarnt werden können. Charlotte muss behaupten, ihr geliebtes Kind sei besser nie geboren worden."
  • "After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O'Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life."@en
  • "After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O'Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life."
  • "How far would you go to take care of someone you love? The heartbreaking Number One bestseller from Jodi Picoult - now in paperback."@en
  • "Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. 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, well, 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 should have 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 brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden, a desperate will to keep their ties from breaking, and, ultimately, a powerful capacity for love. Written with the grace and wisdom she's become famous for, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult offers us an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it."@en
  • "Explores the moral dilemmas faced by the parents of a severely disabled child. When faced with the reality of a child who will be disabled, at which point should an obstetrician counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love?"
  • "Charlotte O'Keefe's daughter is born with osteogenesis imperfecta and will endure endless broken bones. Facing unthinkable medical costs, Charlotte considers a troubling solution. If she goes to court and says she would have terminated the pregnancy had she known of her daughter's condition, she might get enough money for a lifetime of medical expenses."
  • "Mothers-Psychology-Fiction, Physician and patient-Moral and ethical aspects-Fiction."@en
  • "Willow, ihr lang ersehntes Kind, ist perfekt. Das ist das Erste, was Charlotte O'Keefe hört, als sie ihr Baby auf dem Ultraschallbild sieht. Ja, es ist perfekt. Daran ändert auch Willows Krankheit nichts. Charlotte liebt ihr Kind abgöttisch und will nur eins: es beschützen. Denn Willow braucht allen Schutz der Welt. Beim kleinsten Stoss brechen ihre Knochen. Jedoch auch ihr Herz kann brechen. Genau das scheint Charlotte zu vergessen, als sie vor Gericht das Geld für die richtige Behandlung erkämpfen will. Sie verklagt ihre Frauenärztin. Die Krankheit hätte schon zu Beginn der Schwangerschaft erkannt - und die Eltern gewarnt werden können. Charlotte muss jedoch behaupten, ihr geliebtes Kind sei besser nie geboren worden ... Erschütternd, tief bewegend und sensibel führt dieser Roman mitten ins Herz einer Familie, die durch die Kraft einer bedingungslosen Liebe verbunden ist."
  • "This novel looks at the questions that arise for the parents and medical practicioners when a baby is born with a condition that will cause severe deformity and a lifetime of crippling pain."@en
  • "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?"
  • "When Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe's daughter, Willow, is born with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), they are devastated - she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow's medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the financial payout might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she'd known about the disability in advance - words that her husband can't abide, that Willow will hear and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. And the ob/gyn she is suing isn't just her physician - it's her best friend. Handle with Careexplores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality."
  • "Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her obsetrician for wrongful birth - for not having diagnosed Willow's condition early enough in the pregnancy to be able to abort the child. The payout could secure Willow's future. But to get it would mean Charlotte suing her best friend. And standing up in court to declare that if she would have preferred that Willow had never been born."@en
  • "Handle With Care is a great read, with strong characters, an exciting lawsuit to pull you along and really good use of the medical context. Picoult does a terrific job of evoking [osteogenesis imperfecta] and its peculiarities from the likelihood that parents might be accused of child abuse (because of fractures that don't quite "make sense") to the incessant push and pull of wanting a child to experience kindergarten friendships, Disney World and ice skating, while worrying constantly that another fragile bone will break."@en
  • "Charlotte's daughter Willow was born with a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, & spend months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her doctor for wrongful birth."
  • "Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, jist a healthy one."@en
  • "Charlotte O'Keefe's daughter is born with brittle bone disease and faces a lifetime of suffering. Cofronting unthinkable medical costs, Charlotte considers a troubling solution. She might win a large enough financial settlement to cover a lifetime of expenses - if she goes to court and says she would have terminated the pregnancy had she known of her daughter's condition. But the emotional ramifications of such a claim may be too great a price to pay."
  • "Struggling to care for their daughter Willow, who was born with brittle bone disease, Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe add additional strain to their overburdened family life when they file a lawsuit against Charlotte's obstetrician."@en
  • "Struggling to care for their daughter Willow, who was born with brittle bone disease, Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe add additional strain to their overburdened family life when they file a lawsuit against Charlotte's obstetrician."
  • "How far would you go to take care of someone you love? The heartbreaking new bestseller from number one author Jodi Picoult."@en
  • "Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she falls over she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her obstetrician for wrongful birth - for not having diagnosed Willow's condition early enough in the pregnancy to be able to abort the child. The payout could secure Willow's future. But to get it would mean Charlotte suing her best friend, and standing up in court to declare that she would have preferred that Willow had never been born ..."
  • "In the five years since Willow O'Keefe was born with a rare congenital disorder, her parents have endured sleepless nights, mounting medical bills, and the pitying stares of strangers. A whip-smart child, kind, brave, and an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom, she is beloved by her family--but the burden of her care has strained them to the limit. And when her mother seeks to do Willow justice, alienating those closest to her in the process, she must confront the most serious question of all: What constitutes a valuable life?"

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