"If you use one of your children to save the life of another, are you being a good morhter or a very bad one?"

[Joolstoo]

'My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult is an excellent novel and a subject ripe for discussion on MN! - I read it in 3 days and throughouly enjoyed it.

The story in a nutshell is of a family with two children Jesse 4 and Kate 2 - Kate is diagnosed with nasty form of leukaemia - they have a further genetically designed baby, Anna, for stem cells from the umbilical cord in an effort to save Kate - but it goes on over the years.

When Anna is 13 Kate needs a kidney transplant and Anna says enough and sues her parents for medical emancipation.

It's well told story without being over dramatic and it really makes you think of the moral dilemmas involved.

A bloody good read!

I've just finished 'My sister's keeper'. I was crying too by the end. I cannot belive how cold, callous and calculating the mother was from beginning to end. Me and dh talked about it and decided that god forbid we were ever in that position, we would not conceive a baby to use as spare parts. My verdict? Very bad mother.

I'm half way through this, I just can't out it down. I was lucky enough to pick it up the library just as it arrived in, and the librarian commented that they too had been discussing it.

It's heartbreaking isn't it?

completely unputdownable, but not quite as clear cut as it seems at first. Don't want to give too much away, but def seems like bad mother.