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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.
Jun 23, 2005 · In early March of 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his wife Norah's twins with the help of a nurse, Caroline Gill. Their first child, a boy they name Paul, is born a healthy perfect child, but when the second baby is born, Phoebe, David notices she has Down syndrome.
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter chronicles the consequences of a father’s impulsive and immoral decision over a twenty-five-year period from March 1964 until September 1989. Dr. Dr. David Henry perpetrates a cruel and unethical medical act at the birth of his twins that sets in motion a cascade of harm.
May 30, 2006 · A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.
May 30, 2006 · A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love. Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins.
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim Edwards’s...
May 30, 2006 · A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.
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May 30, 2006 · A family drama, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing...
The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal. Families have secrets they hide...
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards and published in 2005, dramatizes a typical medical decision for babies born with Down syndrome in 1964. A doctor, David Henry, abandons his newborn daughter to dehumanized institutional care, and his nurse, Caroline Gill, rescues the child and raises her as her own, without David’s wife Norah ...