The snow had been falling for several hours when her labor began
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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by Kim Edwards
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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 healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. Norah Henry, who knows only that her daughter died at birth, remains inconsolable; her grief weighs heavily on their marriage. And Paul, their son, raises himself as best he can, in a house grown cold with mourning. Meanwhile, Phoebe, the lost daughter, grows from a sunny child to a vibrant young woman whose mother loves her as fiercely as if she were her own.
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women, women's fiction, literary fiction, Fathers and daughters, Twins, Brothers and sisters, Abandoned children, Down syndrome, Fiction, Familien, Børn, Handicappede børn, Downs syndrom, Psychological fiction, Literature, Domestic fiction, Custody of children, Parent and child, Separation (Psychology), Suspense, Separación (Psicología), Novela psicológica, Novela doméstica, Padres e hijos, Ficción, Kentucky, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, psychological, Parent and child, fiction, Literary, Family Life, Parent-child relationship, Child custody, Large type books, Fiction, family life, general, Parents et enfants, Romans, nouvelles, Séparation (Psychologie), Garde des enfants (Droit)People
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2015, Penguin Books
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L'Enfant de tous les silences
2011-02, Belfond, LGF, Distribooks Inc
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Die Tochter des Fotografen: Roman
2008, Aufbau Taschenbuch
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2008, Charnwood
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Córka opiekuna wspomnień
2007-03, Videograf II
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2005, Viking
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses. Published by Viking Press in June 2005, the novel garnered great interest via word of mouth in the summer of 2006 and placed on the New York Times Paperback Bestsellers List. The novel was adapted into a television film and premiered on Lifetime Television on April 12, 2008.
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