The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Title: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
ISBN: 0143037145
Publisher: Penguin
First Published: 2005
No. of pages: 401
Format: Paperback
Rating: 8/10

Synopsis:
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.

Review:
This is one of the most touching tales I've read this year! The characters were beautifully written and the story was heartbreakingly wonderful. Seeing the twins grow up separately, watching them grown and learn, each with a different family and dissimilar set of circumstances, was something quite magical. Edwards has a lightness of touch that keeps it from ever becoming maudlin and the tone remains refreshingly light, whilst still portraying a very serious subject. I will look forward to seeing what else this writer will produce in the future, as I expect good things!