Matters of choice
(Books)

With Matters of Choice Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole medical dynasty. Beginning with the legendary 11th century doctor Robert J. Cole, each eldest son has borne the same name and middle initial, and some have possessed the uncanny 'sixth sense' known as The Gift: the terrible and instinctive knowledge that someone is about to die. In Matters of Choice it emerges again in the present, but for the first time in a daughter, Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole, known as R.J. The first time R.J. defies her beloved father is when she is born a female; the second, when she opts to study law rather than medicine. Yet destiny is to overtake her when R.J. realizes that she has inherited The Gift. But her life changes when she moves to a small town practice and is faced with a terrible dilemma - and an important choice to make..