The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0141030143 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingPlum-crazywing of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 2/8/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, October 31, 2011
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...

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Journal Entry 2 by wingPlum-crazywing at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, October 31, 2011
A lovely read, both heartwarming & heartbreaking -it bought a lump to my throat on more than one occassion!

I think the quote from Sue Monk Kidd on the back cover sums it up perfectly.."An absolutely mesmerizing premise, drawing you deeply & irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families & the devastating secret that shapes them both. Riveting."

Journal Entry 3 by wingPlum-crazywing at Todmorden Train Station in Todmorden, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, December 19, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (12/19/2011 UTC) at Todmorden Train Station in Todmorden, West Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 4 by KawasakiBabe at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, December 19, 2011
Grabbed from the OBCZ shelf on Todmorden station, as quickly as it was left there by Plum-crazy. Moved to quite near the top of my TBR pile. Thank you x

Journal Entry 5 by KawasakiBabe at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 24, 2011
Rarely do I give a book a 10! I loved this: I expected to cry from the start, but only cried in the last third.
Do Paul and Norah ever find out the secret of the "dead" baby - does Phoebe ever manage to make it in the cruel world? Read it and find out!
The crux of the whole story is when Paul says to his Mum: "Our lives could have been so much different."
Well, Paul! so could any of our lives - where we were born; our parents, choices; our schools; our choice (or not) of partner(s); our kids (if any) and so on - the truth is, we've only got one shot at life. Make the most of it, it's not going to perfect - but you don't achieve anything by dwelling on "what might have been" because it so easily "might not have been!"
Fantastic, thank you Plum-crazy, and passing on to my Mum- she'll love it. xx

Journal Entry 6 by KawasakiBabe at Whitby, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, December 25, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (12/25/2011 UTC) at Whitby, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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