The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Edwards, Kim
ISBN: 9780141030142
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 26mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Families have secrets they hide even from themselves . . . 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 live 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. As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.
ISBN: 9780141030142
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 26mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Families have secrets they hide even from themselves . . . 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 live 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. As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.
