The Memory Keepers Daughter

Kim Edwards

Book 4

One winter night in 1964 a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. The son, born first, is perfectly healthy but next, the daughter he immediately recognizes has Down’s syndrome. David makes a split-second decision that ends up haunting their lives forever. He asks Caroline, the nurse, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead of taking the baby to an institution she ends up running away into another city to raise the child as her own.