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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Large Print)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Large Print
Author: Kim Edwards
Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? — On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healt...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781594131974
ISBN-10: 159413197X
Pages: 711
Rating:
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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3.1 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Large Print Press
Book Type: Paperback
Large Print: Yes
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Helpful Score: 4
I really liked this book! Based on the birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, resulting in the father's disavowal of his newborn daughter. A snowstorm immobilizes Lexington, Ky., in 1964, and when young Norah Henry goes into labor, her husband, orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Henry, must deliver their babies himself, aided only by a nurse. Seeing his daughter's handicap, he instructs the nurse, Caroline Gill, to take her to a home and later tells Norah, who was drugged during labor, that their son Paul's twin died at birth. Instead of institutionalizing Phoebe, Caroline absconds with her to Pittsburgh. David's deception becomes the defining moment of the main characters' lives, and Phoebe's absence corrodes her birth family's core over the course of the next 25 years. David's undetected lie warps his marriage; he grapples with guilt; Norah mourns her lost child; and Paul not only deals with his parents' icy relationship but with his own yearnings for his sister as well.
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Helpful Score: 1
Unbelievably good book. Twins separated at birth, one with Down's Syndrome. I'm kind of speechless.... but in a good way!
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Helpful Score: 1
One of the best books I have ever read....it is definitely worth the time.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book grabbed me from the very beginning--it just got into my heart the consequences that happened to these families after the father gave away the Down syndrome daughter at birth. The pages just keep turning as you get deeper and deeper into the events of these lives. One of the very best I've read in a long long time.
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