Review
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 )
I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language (Sue Monk Kidd, Author Of The Best-Selling The Secret Life of Bees )
I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language (Sue Monk Kidd, Author Of The Best-Selling The Secret Life of Bees )
Easy Living
"The Memory Keeper's Daughter is an enthralling novel about the
deepest secrets that can never stay hidden."
deepest secrets that can never stay hidden."
Daily Mail
"A strong and moving story. It's easy to see how it gained its
place on the U.S. besteller lists."
place on the U.S. besteller lists."
Good Housekeeping
"A refresingly low-key but emotionally charged page-turner."
'Woman' magazine
"Deeply moving. Kim Edward's intricate descriptions and beautiful
use of language make this a mesmerising read"
use of language make this a mesmerising read"
Heat
'Poignant and gripping'
She
'An enthralling tale that will keep you page turning until well
past bedtime... it's a truly riveting read'
past bedtime... it's a truly riveting read'
Star
'Touching'
Chat
'A riveting read'
Kate Saunders, The Times
'It's a glorious warm wallow in love and pain and ultimate
redemption - and if you're not uplifted at the end, what are you like?'
redemption - and if you're not uplifted at the end, what are you like?'
Product Description
Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...
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.
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.
As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.
From the Publisher
Kim Edwards's stunning family drama articulates every parent's
silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up
without you? Compulsively readable and deeply moving, 'The Memory Keeper's
Daughter' is an astonishing tale of redemptive love that will touch the
hearts of readers everywhere.
silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up
without you? Compulsively readable and deeply moving, 'The Memory Keeper's
Daughter' is an astonishing tale of redemptive love that will touch the
hearts of readers everywhere.
About the Author
Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection The Secrets of the Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
