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Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition
Pia de Jong
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Description for Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition
Hardback. Best-selling author Pia de Jong's vivid memoir about her newborn daughter's battle with leukemia and the startling decision that led to her recovery. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFD; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
When her new-born daughter Charlotte was diagnosed with a rare and deadly leukaemia, Pia de Jong and her husband made a momentous decision: they rejected chemotherapy and instead choose to wait for what will come . As the following year unfolded, they entered a disorienting world of doctors, medical procedures, and a cast of neighbours and protectors in Amsterdam. de Jong's house became her inner sanctum, where she gave Charlotte the unfiltered love and strength she needed. Their decision, now known as watchful waiting , has become the standard medical protocol for Charlotte's type of leukaemia. This deeply felt memoir reveals the galvanizing impact one child can have on a family, a neighbourhood and a worldwide medical community. Vivid and immersive, Saving Charlotte is also a portrait of a woman's brave voyage of love, hope and, in its inspiring climax, self-discovery.
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393609158
SKU
V9780393609158
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Ref
99-1
About Pia de Jong
Pia de Jong is a best-selling novelist and a regular contributor to the Washington Post. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and their three children, including Charlotte.
Reviews for Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition
Saving Charlotte is simply a beautiful book, impossible to put down, clear as a jewel and flawless in its depths. Pia de Jong writes with incredible grace and an eye for unforgettable details that glow in our minds long after we've finished the book. She's famous in the Netherlands for her work, and now I see why.
Richard Preston, author of The Wild Trees and The Hot Zone What could be more life-shattering than being told that your newborn baby has a deadly leukemia? That awful news was delivered to young mother Pia de Jong. But rather than subject her infant daughter to devastating chemotherapy, she decided to follow her intuition-to watch and wait. Miraculously, Charlotte survived-and in the crisis, de Jong found her life's calling as a writer. Saving Charlotte is her luminous account, trembling with fear-but also with hope-of one extraordinary year.
Annalyn Swan, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of De Kooning: An American Master A book about courage, about hope, about life with all its paradoxes and complexity. Carefully structured and beautifully written in spare, precise, and resonant language, Saving Charlotte conveys all the heartache, all the vulnerability, all the great joys of fighting for a child's life.
Sheila Kohler, author of Once We Were Sisters
Richard Preston, author of The Wild Trees and The Hot Zone What could be more life-shattering than being told that your newborn baby has a deadly leukemia? That awful news was delivered to young mother Pia de Jong. But rather than subject her infant daughter to devastating chemotherapy, she decided to follow her intuition-to watch and wait. Miraculously, Charlotte survived-and in the crisis, de Jong found her life's calling as a writer. Saving Charlotte is her luminous account, trembling with fear-but also with hope-of one extraordinary year.
Annalyn Swan, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of De Kooning: An American Master A book about courage, about hope, about life with all its paradoxes and complexity. Carefully structured and beautifully written in spare, precise, and resonant language, Saving Charlotte conveys all the heartache, all the vulnerability, all the great joys of fighting for a child's life.
Sheila Kohler, author of Once We Were Sisters