The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards.
By: Edwards, Kim.
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BookPublisher: New York : Viking, 2005Description: x, 401 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0670034169.Subject(s): Parent and child -- Fiction | Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction | Custody of children -- Fiction | Parent-child relationship -- Fiction | Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction | Child custody -- Fiction | Psychological fiction | Domestic fictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
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Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
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