The Memory Keeper's Daughter

This is another great story. It tells of a doctor who when his young wife is in labor with twins, sees his first child born, a healthy baby boy. His second child is born and instantly he is struck with grief; his child, a daughter, has been born with Down Syndrome. He does not tell his wife, in the drugged state of childbirth and has the baby girl wisked off with the nurse, instructing her to take her to a home for the handicapped. He tells his wife that the 2nd baby has died, and she mourns the loss of her baby. In a shocking twist, as the nurse is driving the baby to deliver it to the home, she instead decides to run away with the baby and raise her as her own.

Throughout the story the doctor's wife continues to mourn for her lost baby girl, never fully recovering from her loss. The book follows both children as they grow up, both strong and happy, unaware of their missing family. In his effort to keep his secret in order to keep his family together and 'normal', the doctor ends up pushing his family further from him and breaking them apart.

This story was amazing to see how the doctor's intentions ended up so completely far from what he wanted. This story has a happy ending, though and this quickly became another book that I could not put down.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone!