{"product_id":"devils-choice-graham-wilson-9780995431324","title":"Devil's Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOld Balmain House family story moves to the next generation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man sits at a table in a prison cell, hands shackled. The door opens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn comes a slip of a girl, eyes darting around, face drawn and white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is small and slender, like a teenager, but seems older.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man leers with desire - so long since he has seen a pretty girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well, well, look what the fairy godmother has brought to pleasure me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe girl recoils as if struck, then steadies and sits down facing him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe stares at the man intently, mixed loathing and desperation in her eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wrings her hand together then holds still, as if to gather courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally she speaks, \"Please, I need to know if you are my father?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo decades pass. Lizzie's daughter, Catherine, has a child, Amelie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut soon after Amelie's third birthday, the unthinkable happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe gets sick: the unspoken word is 'CANCER', childhood leukaemia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreatment fails, it is all to no avail, a little girl's life hangs in the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bone marrow transplant the last chance - but no match, no donor is found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould another relative help - perhaps her father, aunt, uncle or cousin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut who is Catherine's real father, the man who raped her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree men were there that night; one is murdered, two are in jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe must ask for help from these monsters who abused her mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese men are hardened criminals - she must visit them in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe cannot bear to ask, to beg them and plead for help, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut yet she must try - it is her daughter's only chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt truly is a Devil's Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA parents worst nightmare. A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter's life, a Devil's Choice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie's daughter has returned to Sydney to study. She now lives in Balmain, near where her mother grew up. She settles into life there, establishes a successful career and marries. Then she has a daughter who is the joy of both her and her husband's lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But when her daughter is two years old the unimaginable happens. Her daughter develops an incurable disease, advanced leukaemia. Other treatments fail. Now the only option to save her daughters life is a bone marrow transplant. They search desperately for a donor to match. But no one is found. Her daughter has an unusual tissue profile that seems to come from her Catherine's own father.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But who is her father? Catherine was conceived when her mother was raped by three men. Two of the three men who raped her mother are now in jail, destined to spend the most of their life there. The third is dead.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Can Catherine bear to make the choice and bring herself to appeal to one of these men in an attempt to save her daughter's life when she knows that even this may be futile.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the third novel in \"The Old Balmain House\" Series. Novel two, Lizzie's Tale, tells the story of Lizzie a girl from Balmain and her struggle to keep her own daughter when pregnant at only 15 and the terrible choices she must make. This book.continues the family's story into a third generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graham Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0995431329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780995431324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biobrokers Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Graham Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451035767039,"sku":"9780995431324","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d94c529-735e-4a12-bc67-1a363b477d58.jpg?v=1735876240","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/devils-choice-graham-wilson-9780995431324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}