CARA
A hope and a future
By Rhona Tolchard. IVP. 179 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 1 844 744 305
When I read through this book I wondered what I would do in the same circumstances?
Cara is an amazing but disturbing book by a mother whose first child was born with brain damage. Beautifully written, we are taken along with her uniquely every step of the way, from the elation of first holding her beautiful child to the realisation that all was not well, and the well-meaning but cold information which came from the medics felt, to this new mum, like gratuitous cruelty. The system does not come off well in this account, with its decided lack of humanity towards the new parents.
