My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

This is am amazing book I read a few years ago, it had me hooked from the begining and I have read it numberous times, it was this book that opened my eyes to Jodi Picoult as a writter and since reading "My Sisters Keeper" I have read all of her books. The writer tells the story through a number of characters and sometimes repeats the same event firstly with one character telling there version of events then in the next chapter switching to another character to tell the story from there perspective. The main plot in the story is about a family trying to save the life of there oldest daughter but "creating" a second child as a ...  Read the complete review

I'm in the process of doing one of the things I really enjoy: reading a book and then seeing the film adaptation of it soon! 'My Sister's Keeper' was my holiday read - and a very good read it turned out to be. Plot ----- It tells the story of a family being traumatized by the serious illness (leukemia) that the eldest daughter (Kate) suffers from. Her youngest sister (Anna) is conceived and born because of the medical need of stem cells in the umbilical cord to save the older sister's life. Unfortunately, this one donation turns into many as Kate repeatedly goes into remission and Anna is required to donate various tissues such as bone marrow. ...  Read the complete review

As always in Picoult's novels, this book is based around an incredibly difficult moral dilemma. Anna was deliberately conceived as a precise genetic match to her dying sister, Kate. Initially her parents only required cord blood from Anna at her birth, but as the children grew up and Kate repeatedly relapsed, Anna became a perpetual donor, spending almost as much time in hospital as her older sister. Finally, when Kate needs a kidney, Anna begins to question the value of her own life, distinct from her sisters'. Her mother is determined that Anna will continue to be a donor for Kate, but Anna retains a lawyer to sue her parents for the rights to her own ...  Read the complete review

As a bit of a fan of Jodi Picoult's novels, when a friend was having a clearout of books and I saw My Sister's Keeper in the pile to throw out, I snapped it up. Like many of her other books, My Sister's Keeper deals with moral issues faced by everyday people today. In this case the plot deals primarily with the issue of how much of a say parents should have in deciding their children's medical care, and whether or not it is right for an individual to refuse to donate organs that could potentially save the life of a family member. The story revolves around 13 year old Anna and her sister Kate. Aged 2 Kate was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Her ...  Read the complete review

Jodi Picoult is the best selling author of eleven novels and her latest 'My Sisters Keeper' is deservedly shortlisted for the 'Richard and Judy Best Read Of The Year' award. *** The Plot *** What would you do if you had a child who was dying of leaukaemia and the only way to save them was to have another child that would be used as a doner? Would you have another baby to save the life of your existing child? Well that's exactly what Sara and Brian Fitzgerald did. Now thirteen years old, Anna Fitzgerald has been used as a doner for her sister Kate all her life and now she wonders what life might be like without the endless surgeries, ...  Read the complete review