Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Today I finished reading Gebroken licht - the Dutch translation of Kim Edward's The Memory Keeper's Daughter - a book I received as a birthday present from my mom.


Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...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.

I really looked forward to reading this book as it had gotten good reviews, but this novel by Edwards disappointed me. In my opinion, the pace of the plot is too slow and the plot itself too predictable.

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