When Catriona's eight-year-old daughter Daisy shows flu symptoms that won't go away, the London doctors, stymied, start looking for the answer in Cat's own intentions. Hysteria? Munchausen's Syndrome, where mothers actually make their children sick to magnify their own importance? After all, Cat's "not like other mothers, with their anoraks and certainty."
All too soon, the normal paradoxes of life ("they hurt because they were getting better") sound like sick ironies instead of wry realities. For someone like Cat, who has tried to ignore her own mother's early neglect and rejection, the idea that she would harm her daughter is especially harrowing. Change that to catastrophic when Cat's husband begins to share the doctor's fears.
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