witchgrrl reviewed on 6/18/2007 + 39 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

This is a NYT bestseller. A doctor in the sixties has to deliver his wife during a snowstorm. She has two babies - the first is perfect but the second has Down's Syndrome. He gives the second baby to the nurse and tells her to bring her to an institution. He tells his wife the baby has died. The nurse, however, decides to raise the baby as her own in another city.

This book is, quite simply, haunting. Over several decades, everyone's lives are changed by one person's unthinkable secret. I loved the way the author portrayed the internal lives of the characters. Four stars.

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