Handle with Care

V malen‘kom gorodke v N‘yu-Gempshire zhivet, kazalos‘ by, samaya obychnaya sem‘ya: papa, mama i dve docheri. No, k neschast‘yu, mladshaya doch‘, pyatiletnyaya Uillou, stradaet redkim geneticheskim zabolevaniem, i lyuboe neostorozhnoe dvizhenie mozhet privesti k perelomu. A potomu zhizn‘ SHarlotty i SHona O‘Kif sostoit iz bessonnyh nochey, rastushchih schetov, unizitel‘noy zhalosti drugih roditeley i navyazchivyh mysley o tom, chto, esli… CHto, esli by SHarlotta znala o bolezni docheri do ee rozhdeniya? CHto, esli by vse bylo inache? CHto, esli by ih lyubimaya Uillou nikogda ne rodilas‘? I naskol‘ko cenna kazhdaya chelovecheskaya zhizn‘? I vot v muchitel‘noy popytke svesti koncy s koncami, chtoby pokryt‘ raskhody na lechenie docheri, SHarlotta reshaetsya na otchayannyy shag. Ona pred"yavlyaet isk o nepravomernom rozhdenii svoemu vrachu, ne predupredivshemu ee zaranee, chto rebenok roditsya s tyazheloy invalidnost‘yu. V sluchae udachnogo iskhoda dela denezhnye vyplaty smogut obespechit‘ uhod za Uillou do konca zhizni devochki. Pered SHarlottoy voznikaet slozhnaya moral‘no-eticheskaya problema, ved‘ vrach, s kotorym ona reshaet sudit‘sya, ee luchshaya podruga… «Obrashchat‘sya s ostorozhnost‘yu» — eto berushchiy za dushu roman, v kotorom podnimaetsya problema cennosti chelovecheskoy zhizni i togo, na chto my gotovy poyti, chtoby ee zashchitit‘.