536 0da6fc78-5013-41b8-bbf4-fea42bc5a11b The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards calibre (0.8.32) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2006-12-01T08:00:00+00:00 <div><p class="description">SUMMARY:</p><p class="description">Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. </p><p class="description">BACKCOVER: </p><p class="description">“Edwards is a born novelist. . . . Rich with psychological detail and the nuances of human connection.” —Chicago Tribune </p><p class="description">“Unfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story.” —Sue Monk Kidd </p><p class="description">“Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper's Daughter.” —The Washington Post </p><p class="description">“Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it. . . . The Memory Keeper's Daughter has it all.” —Sena Jeter Naslund </p><p class="description">“Kim Edwards has created a tale of regret and redemption, of honest emotion, of characters haunted by their past. This is simply a beautiful book.” —Jodi Picoult</p></div> Penguin 9780143037149 eng Fiction