![]() ![]() On a family holiday to Disneyworld, she trips, breaks both femurs and is treated by the local hospital. ![]() Before Willow is five she's had over 100 breaks - some minor but many sufficiently serious to leave her in casts for months at a time. Picoult drags at your heart-strings with her description of this tiny baby, already with broken ribs and long-bone fractures being torn from her mother's body. The description of Willow's birth in the prologue is as harrowing a piece of writing as I've ever read. Handle With Care is the story of Willow O'Keefe, a baby born with osteogenesis imperfecta or brittle bone disease. We all know that Miss Picoult writes about families, relationships and love and frequently places the reader in the position where you must make a moral judgment - which is just as likely to be swept away by Miss Picoult in the next chapter. ![]() Derek 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. ![]()
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