Title: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
First published: 2005
Description: The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses. Published by Viking Press in June 2005, the novel garnered great interest via word of mouth in the summer of 2006 and placed on the New York Times Paperback Bestsellers List. The novel was adapted into a television film and premiered on Lifetime Television on April 12, 2008.
Subjects: women, women's fiction, literary fiction, Fathers and daughters, Twins, Brothers and sisters, Abandoned children, Down syndrome, Fiction, Familien, Børn, Handicappede børn, Downs syndrom, Psychological fiction, Literature, Domestic fiction, Custody of children, Parent and child, Separation (Psychology), Suspense, Separación (Psicología), Novela psicológica, Novela doméstica, Padres e hijos, Ficción, Kentucky, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, psychological, Parent and child, fiction, Literary, Family Life, Parent-child relationship, Child custody, Large type books, Fiction, family life, general, Parents et enfants, Romans, nouvelles, Séparation (Psychologie), Garde des enfants (Droit)
Places: Pittsburgh, USA, Aruba
People: David Henry, Caroline Gill, Norah Henry, Paul Henry, Phoebe, Al Simpson, Dorothy March
Time periods: 1964, 1965, 1970, 1977, 1989