712 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2005 by Thorndike Press.
The memory keeper's daughter
by Kim Edwards
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses. Published by Viking Press in June 2005, the novel garnered great interest via word of mouth in the summer of 2006 and placed on the New York Times Paperback Bestsellers List. The novel was adapted into a television film and premiered on Lifetime Television on April 12, 2008.
Subjects
- Twins -- Fiction.
- Down syndrome -- Fiction.
- Abandoned children -- Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
- Large type books.
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.