She was told that she wouldn't be able to have children after an obstetrician botched removing an ovarian cyst.

It is not that Nina planned to be a working mother while going to law school. After much compromise on her part, they make it to school and work basically on time.

To make matters worse, her son has wet his bed and she assumes it is out of embarrassment that he's being difficult. Normally, she relies on her husband Caleb for these tight situations, the ones where motherhood and career collide, but this particular morning Caleb is meeting with a new client who is trying to decide between buying a fence or hiring him to build a stonewall. He wasn't well the night before, and she knows she shouldn't send him to school, but if she gives him aspirin, just this once, then maybe she can prolong Miss Lydia's phone call just long enough to give the closing speech on the rape trial she is prosecuting. First she has to get her son out of bed, dressed, fed and to school in thirty minutes. Most working mothers will relate to her morning. Picoult engages us from the beginning with the morning events in the Frost home giving us insight into Nina's working mother guilt. And because it is in the news, it means that people will not be able to say that she is unfairly picking on the Catholic Church. Of course she couldn't have planned this, but it does show that she was paying attention to an unpleasant common thread developing in the news.

And given our recent headlines regarding the Catholic Church and pedophiles, a very timely one at that. Wow! Let's just say that Picoult has come up with an extraordinary moral conflict. What does it mean to be a good mother? I don't normally steal the publisher's book description when writing my thoughts on a novel, but in the case of Perfect Match, well, this sums it up in more ways than I can tell you without spoiling the book. She found what she was looking for and grabbed it, surprised to see that it fit with the same familiar comfort as her husband's hand.' (Reviewed by Judi Clark APR 28, 2002) 'In her purse, her fingers slipped over the smooth leather cover of her checkbook, her sunglassess, a lipstick, the furry nut of a Life Saver, lost from its package. Or a review of Salem Falls or a review of Plain Truth) (Jump over to a review of My Sister's Keeper

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