num_pages: 401
description: Families have secrets they hide even from themselves... It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever.For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.
language: English
title: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
titlecomplete: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
characters: Al, Bree, Phoebe, Dr. David Henry, Paul Henry, Norah Henry
genres: Fiction, Family, Book Club, Drama, Adult, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 595625
places: Paris, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lexington, Kentucky
publisher: Penguin Books