Living with it - Lizzie Enfield

Ben and Maggie are devastated to discover that their baby daughter, Iris, has become profoundly deaf after being exposed to the measles virus. Their close friends, Isobel and Eric, feel guilty that the virus was passed on by their daughter Gabriella; Isobel had decided years ago not to give the MMR vaccination to her children. Ben blames Isobel for his daughter's deafness, but she is also the woman he fell in love with at university, who eventually married his best friend. Ben decides to sue Isobel and Eric for damages - but is he motivated by a sense of justice for his daughter, or a sense of revenge for past emotional betrayals? In the storm that follows, Isobel's world begins to unravel, and ties of family and friendship are put to the ultimate test...