The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller
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 recognises 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.
'Unfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply
and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story.'
- SUE MONK KIDD

'Kim Edwards writes with great wisdom and compassion . . . This is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller
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 recognises 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.
'Unfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply
and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story.'
- SUE MONK KIDD

'Kim Edwards writes with great wisdom and compassion . . . This is

a wonderful, heartbreaking, heart-healing novel.' — LUANNE RICE

'Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sym^thy of The Memory Keeper's Daughter.' - THE WASHINGTON POST .
'Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it.'
- SENA JETER NASLUND
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