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Book Review of The Memory Keeper's Daughter

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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A story of a Dr. who delivers his own twins, one, the boy, is OK, the little girl has Downs Syndrome. He tells his nurse to take the little baby girl to a "home," and tells his wife that she died at birth. The nurse cannot bring herself to leave the baby once she is at the "home" and decides to take her for herself and raise her.

The nurse leaves the Dr. practice and moves, raises the little girl and marries.

As the book progresses, secrets are discovered, lies revealed and the Dr. learns that his nurse has raised his daughter.