The Memory Keeper's Daughter
By: Kim Edwards.
Edition: 9th printing
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780143037149
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Parent and child -- Fiction; Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction; Custody of children -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down's syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial  secrets, and the redemptive power of love.
--back cover
Notes: Includes "A Penguin readers guide to The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards" (last sequence).
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