The memory keeper's daughterThe Memory Keeper's Daughter
By: Kim Edwards
Edition: Penguin by hand edition (001)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780241973561
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Parent and child; Fiction; Separation (Psychology); Custody of children; Down syndrome; Psychological fiction
Description: The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal. 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.
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