"Kim Edwards’s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love."Links and useful information:
This book was reviewed by the Guardian - see what they had to say here.
For more information on the book you visit the books official website at http://www.memorykeepersdaughter.com/ There is also a Penguin Reading Guide available here, that offers a number of useful discussion questions to get the discussion rolling.
This book has also been turned into a film - if you wish to you can see a preview of its trailer below - warning, this may have spoilers!
To obtain your own copy of this book, contact Russell by email at GAW@email.com or by phone on *****.
The meeting to discuss this book will take place at 7.30 on 13th August at the shop in Central Court. (Email us if you would like more details.) We will also post some information up on here with our thoughts on this months choice. Feel free to comment on that if you have read the book but can't make the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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