White Lies: A Tale of Babies, Vaccines, and Deception

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	• White Lies: A Tale of Babies, Vaccines, and Deception Sarah Collins Honenberger Cedar Creek Publishing, 2006 - 283 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

White Lies

This book has an absorbing plot; many interesting characters and character development.
Legal and medical points of view were well presented. AND, it has a happy ending which made me feel good.

White Lies

A wonderfully written book exploring the universal themes of parenting, mother-guilt, love. The characters are real people who took hold of my thoughts even after I put the book down.

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Powerful Pen

This is an enjoyable and important book. The author has beautifully combined an expose of a tragic national issue with the impact it has on the lives of the protagonist lawyer, her family, and the woman and child she represents. The characters are alive, and the settings of towns and courtrooms are believable because they are drawn with such exacting care. But it is the story itself that is riveting. The struggle to get justice for a child hopelessly damaged by medical incompetance and bad policy is told competently and quietly, and will not fail to engage and enrage the reader. This easy-to-read and hard-to-forget book belongs on every parent's bookshelf.

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White Lies: A Tale of Babies, Vaccines, and Deception

Well written, fast and easy to read. I could not put it down. Honenberger shows true insight into emotions of a mother who loves her child very much.

An Auspicious Debut by a Fine New Novelist

One of the major pleasures in reading 'first works' by unknown writers is the discovery of great writing in the nascent stage. With WHITE LIES Sarah Collins Honenberger steps onto the stage with a securely written, well researched 'mystery', a novel based on fact that is played by actors so well defined that by the end of the book we feel as though we know each of them - the 'heroes' and the 'villains' - so well that from every angle of each the character motivation is fully detailed. No mean feat this, especially when dealing with a subject matter that is by nature controversial. That Honenberger succeeds in making this fast paced intrigue a truly memorable novel places her in the upper echelon of new writers.

WHITE LIES explores the lives of two disparate women: Jean is a divorce lawyer, happily married with three children, and Lacy who is the product of the poor Carolinas, a women with a history of childhood abuse, bad marriages, but most importantly a mother who has a twenty year old child Danny who has been a vegetable since age 3 months, the apparent result of a reaction to a DPT vaccination. Jean becomes Lacy's lawyer and confidant and friend and the story revolves around the preparation of the case against the drug company who produced the DPT vaccine - a too many years' hidden mystery of deceit that has devastated Lacy and her now fairly normal family life. The manner in which the case is investigated is as well researched and as well written as, say, 'Erin Brockovich', but Honenberger does not stop there. There are fascinating sidebars involving the families of both women (one of Jean's sons, Stephen, may be having a drug problem - a finely tuned story in its own development) that make this also a fascinating story of the trials of parenting. This is a thorough-composed novel that is startlingly well written, a book that can be recommended to every reader without reservation. We will be hearing more from Sarah Collins Honenberger! Grady Harp, November 07

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Inspired by a true story, one mother's quest for the truth about her baby's injuries from a vaccine, and the unlikely friendship that develops with her small town attorney who has problems of her own. A popular book club selection and an insightful look at life with a vaccine-injured child. This novel offers hope to families who are considering filing a claim with the government's compensation fund.

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