The
Memory Keeper's daughter
By Kim
Edwards.
This
is a fictional novel starting with a delicate love story between a
young doctor and a lovely lady. It drifts slowly into marriage and
then the falling apart of the couple with the birth of twins. The
father, Dr Henry who delivers the twins ,realizes that the little
girl has Down syndrome and then mistakenly decides to shield his wife
Nora from what he sees as a tragedy by telling his wife that the
baby died at birth.
The
third main character in the book is the clinic nurse Caroline who
alone helps with the birth. She is told to take the baby girl to an
orphanage but decides she cannot leave the baby there and runs away
with her to a new town to bring up the baby as her own.
She
keeps in touch with the Doctor through letters never telling him
where she is living.
The
Doctor now has a huge hidden secret in his life and novel evolves on
how this secret colors and changes all their lives.
This
made for suspenseful, interesting reading.
If you
like a book on familyrelationships and outcomes this will appeal to you.
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