The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Viking
Publisher Place: Camberwell
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 401 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Doctor Delivers His Own Twins In An Emergency,the Firstborn Is Healthy, But The Second Is Downs Syndrome.He Asks His Nurse To Take Her To An Institution, But She Decides To Disappear To Another City And Raise The Child As Her Own.

Publishers Description: A father makes the split second decision to relinquish his newborn daughter upon realising she has Down's Syndrome. Unbeknownst to him, the nurse he entrusts to take his baby away to an institution instead disappears to another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, this is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.

ISBN: 9780670917099