by Kim Edwards · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141030142
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«The Memory Keeper's Daughter» is a contemporary fiction novel by Kim Edwards, published by Penguin in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Dr. David Henry attends his wife's delivery. Twins are born: a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome; on impulse, he secretly hands the girl to a nurse and announces she has died. The novel follows the consequences: the family that falls apart and the girl who grows up on the margins, in a story about lies, guilt, and redemption.
Kim Edwards's first novel, originally published in 2005; this Penguin Books edition is from April 2007.
For readers of family drama and literary fiction; a common title in book clubs.
Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. She is the author of a story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, and her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, won several awards and became a bestseller.
