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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

  • 414 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2005
  • 27 editions

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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: literary fiction and a thriller.

  • Literary fiction
  • Psychological fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Separation (Psychology)
  • Thrillers
  • Women's fiction
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Twins

2 About Kim Edwards

Born 1958

Kim Edwards (born May 4, 1958) is an American author and educator. She is the author of a story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, and her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, won several awards and became a bestseller.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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