The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Viking, 2007.Description: vi, 408 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780141030142 (pbk.) :
- 9780141030142
- 813 EDW
- PS3555.D942
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Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
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. Grief quietly tears apart David\'s family.
It's 1964 and Dr David Henry finds himself delivering his wife's twins. Relieved, he sees that his son is born healthy, but recognises the signs of Down's Syndrome in his daughter's face. In a split-second decision that will haunt their family forever, he asks the nurse to take his daughter away.