The Memory Keeper's Daughter

<p>The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards'<i> The Memory Keeper's Daughter</i> is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal.<br><br><i>Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...</i><br><br>It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever.<br><br>For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.<br><br>As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.<br><br>'Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again . . . this is simply a beautiful book' Jodi Picoult <br><br>'I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language' Sue Monk Kidd, author of the best-selling, <i>The Secret Life of Bees</i> <br><br>Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection <i>The Secrets of the Fire King</i>, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. Her second novel, <i>The Lake of Dreams,</i> is available from Penguin. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.</p> <p>The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards'<i> The Memory Keeper's Daughter</i> is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal.<br><br><i>Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...</i><br><br>It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever.<br><br>For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.<br><br>As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.<br><br>'Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again . . . this is simply a beautiful book' Jodi Picoult <br><br>'I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language' Sue Monk Kidd, author of the best-selling, <i>The Secret Life of Bees</i> <br><br>Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection <i>The Secrets of the Fire King</i>, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. Her second novel, <i>The Lake of Dreams,</i> is available from Penguin. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.</p>