The Memory Keeper's Daughter

On a winter night in 1964, a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son is born first, perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asked his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Kim Edwards, 2006 Paperback, Very Good 416 pages 318g 21 x 13 x 2.2 cm