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100 1 _aEdwards, Kim,
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245 1 4 _aThe memory keeper's daughter /
_cKim Edwards.
260 _aLondon :
_bViking,
_c2007.
300 _avi, 408 p. ;
_c20 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
505 0 _aIt 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.
520 8 _aIt'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.
650 0 _aParent and child
_vFiction
650 0 _aSeparation (Psychology)
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650 7 _aModern & contemporary fiction
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