this is simply a beautiful book' Jodi Picoult
'Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again. 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.Īs grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever.įor though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. Meanwhile, Phoebe, the lost daughter, grows from a sunny child to a vibrant young woman whose mother loves her as fiercely as if she were her own.The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal.įamilies have secrets they hide even from themselves. And Paul, their son, raises himself as best he can, in a house grown cold with mourning. Norah Henry, who knows only that her daughter died at birth, remains inconsolable her grief weighs heavily on their marriage. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome.
His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins.
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