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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-01 11:48:09.
(Language: English)
 
In The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards beautifully chronicles a pivotal choice one man makes and the people who have to live with his decision. When Dr. David Henry delivers his own twins on a fateful blizzardy night, he immediately recognizes the signs of Downs Syndrome in his newborn daughter. Unable to come to terms with a secretly painful past, David tells his wife the baby girl didn't make it and entrusts the infant into the hands of his nurse, dragging her into his web of deceit. Instead of institutionalizing the baby as she is instructed to do, Caroline clandestinely raises the child as her own. In a scene reminiscent of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, where Holden Caulfield is urged to reach for the brass ring, Caroline is jubilant when Phoebe is finally able to grasp a medal that is dangled before her. Ironically, Caroline fights for her daughter's right to an education but is terrified by the independence that Phoebe is eager to assert as a young adult attempting to conquer the stigmata she is surrounded by to embrace a normal life. Plot simplicity is not to be confused with predictability. While the actions of Edwards' well developed characters take you completely by surprise, what's most surprising is the plausibility of it all as unexpected characters weave their way into the fabric of a torn family's lives. 
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-10 10:06:09.
(Language: English)
This is a very moving story. It begins one night when David (a doctor) and his wife Norah give birth to twins, the boy is healthy but the girl has downs syndrome. David decides to tell his nurse to give the baby girl away and he tells his wife that the baby died during labour. The amazing thing is that the nurse cannot go through with the decision and decides to raise the baby girl as her own. Every few chapters is from a different characters point of view and it is interesting to see the story unfold through each of their eyes. It was a bit slow to read in parts but overall a very good read and makes you realise how one decision can not only affect your life, but the lives of many others.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-06 07:42:45.
(Language: English)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards, will give you haunting memories for years to come. It is a beautifully written book, with the depth and lasting themes of a classic: betrayal, deception, love, and loss. It begins with the catalyst for the entire action of the book, a lie, meant to protect, which only unleashes pain and destruction. The setting is the 1960s, a time when Down's Syndrome was misunderstood, and children with this defect were shipped off to group homes to be raised by strangers until they died. The plot revolves around a doctor, his wife, son, and nurse and how they react to his lies about a daughter with Down's. You will be hooked if you read just the first chapter. As I write this I want to go back and re-read it. It was that good.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-13 11:58:25.
(Language: English)
Usually I buy tons of books at one time and start reading every single book until one of them grabs me. This book had me from the description. I kept reading this book until it was done. I absolutely hated each character for being so gosh dang selfish!! But love love LOVED the book!! So glad I purchased my own copy to read again in a few years! This is actually the first book, in a long while, that has been able to catch my attention in the beginning and keep it long enough to finish reading it. I love the author's way of telling the story in everyone's point of view. You hate the characters and yet you love them so much! You care for them. You want it to work out for them. I was engrossed. And usually I'm a fantasy reader!! I would recommend it to everyone!! If I had 10 thumbs they'd be up.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-09 04:09:41.
(Language: English)
In 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his fraternal twins during a winter storm. The delivery of his son goes well. However, when he delivers his daughter Phoebe, he realizes that she was born with Down syndrome. In a split moment, he decides he does not want to keep her and hands over the baby to the attending nurse Caroline. He tells Caroline to take her to a home. When his wife, Norah, wakes up he tells her their daughter died. This decision haunts him for the rest of his life. The book explores the effects this secret has on everyone involved- from the nurse who decides to keep and raise Phoebe as her daughter to Paul her twin brother who craves his father's attention throughout his life. The initial story line was good, but the story focuses too much on the characters inner turmoils and behaviors that sometimes seem unwarranted. For example, Paul seems to hate his father, but you do not understand where this hatred stems from since David has not done anything to his son that would deserve this kind of treatment (at least not anything that is explained to the reader). In addition, the distance that grows between Norah and David would be understandable if Norah was reacting to David's deception, but she does not learn about her daughter for many years so her animosity toward her husband is not easily understood. Although I thought some of the story line was weak, it does get the reader thinking about life and the consequences of our decisions.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-15 06:39:33.
(Language: English)
I don't know why this woman is on the best sellers list, or has any popularity at all. She wrote that mermaid chair book, which was terrible, and now I went to read this book, becaue it was a interesting story line, and I have to say that it did have good reviews, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't have. It sucked. First of all, the book had all the all the makings to be fabulous. But it just fell sooo very short. I swear, I never want to see the word deft again. I don't know how many times I read it, but she needs some new adjectives. It was so flowery and over described. She tried to capture these moments in time, and she just didn't get there. The characters never really connects to the readers, and when the book ends, your more happy that you don't have to read her writing any more, then the characters become content. It was an over done, over written, bad book, that pissed me off, because the idea had the potential to be great.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-09 01:17:15.
(Language: English)
David was the most complex character in this book and his conflicts were what made the book especially interesting to me. He makes one decision -- in a moment of crisis, a moment when he is already not thinking clearly and is under tremendous pressure -- and it affects the course his life and marriage from that point on. His decision is also a major influence on the lives of several other people. We keep waiting for him to divulge his secret, but he dies before he can do so. We see him almost telling his wife ... but he never does. This is really sad, because his secret, and his inability to disclose it, robs his marriage of love and intimacy. I think this happens to a lot of people and the novel really depicted it well. It shows the sadness of a life lived without intimacy and the immense burden of a family secret. It also shows the danger of trying to "protect" our loved ones by not telling them things we think would hurt them or damage our relationship with them. In the end, David lost his family anyway. This book showed that our actions -- even if well-intentioned -- have consequences that can't always be undone. What do we do about that? And what set of consequences do we choose
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-01 09:52:51.
(Language: English)
It was attractive on the first glance by the fabulous cover and public recommendations. But it's tough to get the start by the overwhelming clumsy description and I'd given up once. Recently, I picked up again. When I was more patient and got used to her writing style, I was fascinated by the story. It inspires you about true love and human incompetence about life. Despite the good initial intention, the upcoming plots would be out of human plans and thought that the situation got worse. Only when the simple rules were followed - love with acceptance and forgiveness; treat with honesty, all mess would be straightened out miraculously. If fortunate enough as Caroline, incredulous fortune would fall at your hand quietly.'You didn't intend any of this, but it happened anyway.''The place was as familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.''don't make things worse than they are. Don't say things you'll regret for the rest of your life.''You don't know what will happen until you do it.'
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-12 06:00:02.
(Language: English)
There is descriptive language in this book to the point of being annoying. I enjoy descriptive language but she actually describes the doctor turning on a light in great length! It read something like, "He groped for the light switch along the cool, institutional, tiled wall and eventually he felt the switch give way under his palm as the florescent lights flickered to life." What is more frustrating, it really was inconsequential to that portion of the story. I believe that if the author had interviewed people who had lived through tragedies similar to this and then described their emotions, and the turmoil they went through...it would have been a tremendous novel!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-05 09:26:47.
(Language: English)
I was very disappointed. The story seemed so promising--twins separated at birth without the knowledge of the mother. Would have made a good short story.However, as a mother of twins, I found it weird that Norah and David didn’t have a plan for ANY complications. I didn't buy it that Dr. David was sparing his wife pain with his lies.Drugging Norah to remove the conscious memory of HER child? Cruel. I could not see David as anything but a master manipulator, disconnected from real life.The story of saintly Nurse Caroline Gill was somewhat interesting, though Phoebe was stereotypical. How could Gill respect David; he just threw money at the problem?I found the reconciliation climax ludicrous. I have lived through this experience. Has the author? Did she even interview anyone who had? I threw the book across the room when Norah offered to take Phoebe to France. Hello? And where was Bree?There were only a handful of actual events portrayed in the book. The rest of the 400 pages were filled with wistful references to “the big secretâ€. I was annoyed by constantly being told the significance of every single event, gesture or landscape.
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maze posted a review at 2009-01-25 06:59:57.
(Language: English)
Right from the beginning, David's actions really angered me and I don't think there was enough justice for Phoebe because he just dies of a heart attack, and Norah has to hear from Caroline on what really happened that night. It also bothered me so much on how he cared for Rosemary and wanted to take care of her and Paul has to be flushed towards the end corners as usual. David just decides to show up one day with this pregnant girl and tries to be 'kind', just because she happened to know their secret and they both had this sort of understanding? He should have done that towards Phoebe especially, and Paul, Norah long ago. I didn't really like how over protective Caroline was at some parts, but I could understand why. Then again, some of Phoebe's ways frustrated me as well because I just wished she could understand that Paul and Norah are her family to. But I know, she acknowledges them in her own way and she has down syndrome, therefore its not easy for her to understand these things when she was brought up by Caroline and Al throughout the years, and to her, those are her parents. I just wished that David didn't have to die so quickly, because I would have wanted for him to suffer even more. It is sickening that his own family has to pay the price for his own barbaric actions. This book gripped me in the beginning and at many parts it left me feeling impatient and frustrated.It made me just wish that Caroline had gone up to Norah and handed Phoebe to her when she was an infant, then again, there wouldn't have been a story if that was the case. Overall, I would have liked for the ending to be of more justice for Norah, Paul and Phoebe although I know, they did meet and are part of Phoebe's life, and, this is the reality of what happens out there. Some people won't even get to meet their child who was given away, or won't even know. If the ending had beeen that way instead, I would have been even more infuriated. A good read nevertheless.
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Dayou posted a review at 2009-03-10 12:26:34.
(Language: English)
This story is based on a secret, the secret is related to 5 people, a doctor David, his wife Norah, a nurse called Caroline, David's son Paul and his daughter Phobe.Phobe was born with a disease--Down Syndrome, David knew that his daughter would die at a very young age, and that his wife Norah would suffer a lot because of this, so he ordered Caroline to give away Phobe to an orphanage and told his wife their daughter died. He was trying to protect his family, but somehow, something was wrong and he caused further pain. Caroline, instead, did not send Phobe to the orphanage, she raised her up in another city, meanwhile, tension grew between David and Norah, still, Norah knew nothing about her daughter. Finally, they divorced and their son, Paul, who was good at guitar, was accepted by Juilliard, a famous college for musicians. David, who was in his fifties, died of heart attack while running, and Caroline eventually decided to let Norah know the truth. Phobe and Paul, the twins, finally met after 24 years of separation. This book is very mesmerizing, once you have it in your hands, you can never stop reading. I am quite moved by Cari=oline when she did not drop Phobe to the orphanage but raised her like her own child and sacrificed her job for it. From this story, I learned that one must be extremely careful before he makes a decision every decision can shape your life differently.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-25 07:16:43.
(Language: English)
In my numerous visits to Kinokuniya, I've seen this novel staring at me from its location, inviting and beckoning. However, I've never had the impulse to read beyond the blurb... Until the fateful day I bought the book (as I really wanted some new reading material) where I was prompted to read the first chapter at the store. And I am glad I did as the novel turned out to be one of the most compelling novels that I've read recently. This novel, which spans two generations, is about people who have been drawn together and kept apart by one secret. It illustrates very powerfully how one secret, just one, can change and disrupt lives in ways even the people affected can never imagine. Motivated by a true story told to the author, there are many lessons we can take away from this novel. It has also allowed for much reflection on what constitutes family. Through this novel, you will see families that are born or made, members who are closely related to one another by love as much as by blood. What is it that holds a family together? Is it blood ties, is it love, or is it both? This novel holds a simple story that seemed distant from us. Yet if we were to think carefully, when we open our papers every morning, how similar are the news reports of abandoned babies to this story? Has the world changed very much from 1964? Have we changed? There is indeed much food for thought from reading this novel. You should probably read it. It might not change your life, but might make you see things you've somewhat missed in your hectic lifestyle.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-01 12:38:48.
(Language: English)
A beautiful book by a writer who knows how to play the emotions very well. Subtle references to the environment would be mixed with a wary nakedness of the present situation followed by the emotional feeling flowing in each and every line of the novel. The tale unfolds beautifully to narrate how characters are haunted by the past. The sympathy and compassion with which each character has been crafted shows the brilliance of Kim Edwards. A mesmerizing novel full of compassion and human emotions so delicate, it will wake one to some of the forgotten past. The beauty of the novel springs from the words used to describe the web of past lives and dreams in which the characters seem to have entagled themselves. The characters - David, Caroline, Paul,.... have been dealt with in greater details and depth. After reading through, it leaves one wondering - "But what about Al and Phoebe..... They weren't explained in greater depth....". Al and Phoebe characters weren't explained in depth and that's one area of improvement that I sense in the novel. Finally, its a good read. People who love emotion and don't want much surprises springing out of every page, this is a novel for them. I liked reading this. Looking forward to more work from Kim.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-16 04:18:44.
(Language: English)
Given to me by Crystal Casavant Roy. Liked that the author was from Kentucky where my family originated and that the book highlighted a lot of those familiar areas. Also a great read if you like to read about downs syndrom and how recently we oppressed or poorly viewed those with dissabilities. I tought it as a little sad. Downer - not an upper. Crystal Casavant Roy recommended this book to me. At first, I wasn't a fan but mid-way through I couldn't put it down. For me, it opened my eyes to how recent in our country's history we oppressed and viewed children with down's syndrom so poorly. Kim Edwards is a Kentuckian, close to my own parents home town, so it was especially pleasurable for me to get to know her a little through her writing.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-06 01:27:23.
(Language: English)
I purchased this book out of desperation at the airport, hoping to find something that would help pass my flight time by quickly. I'm SO glad I picked this book! I couldn't stop reading it, I was transformed into the world in the story. I felt the burden of guilt the main character felt as he wove a weave of destruction into his life because of one lie. I cried with the characters in the story and found myself wanting to SCREAM at some of them for the poor decisions they were making and how easy I felt they could redeem their lives by telling the truth. I learned a lesson reading this book, many lessons actually. I highly recommend this one - I've already lent it to 2 friends who read it just as quickly as I did. I bought this at the airport out of desperation to find something that would pass the time by on my flight. I don't know if I'd normally purchase this but I am SOOOO glad I did!!! I got lost in the books world - I cried with and even screamed at the characters in this book. It's a simple story about how complicated our lives can be from one lie... and how it turns into more and more and more and destroys relationships. It's beautiful and painful and wonderful all at once.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-30 04:48:34.
(Language: English)
When someone asked me about this book this was my response: Memory Keeper’s Daughter. It was quite popular when it was published and I’ve heard really good things about it but I read it and found it rather boring. The plot had the potential to be very interesting. It was about a man who [I’m skipping extensive plot summary I typed up]. Overall it kind of meandered through everyone’s lives and the way this secret affects everyone and pulls them apart. Meandered is the key word there. It got really wordy in some places where it didn’t need to be, the dialogue could be very unnatural in places, and I want to take a red pen to the thing and cross out entire passages that didn’t have a point. After all of the plot thickening it ended pretty flatly. I was really disappointed. It was okay but I don’t understand why so many people liked it. It wasn’t even that insightful. The author seems like a bit of a one-noter to me. Apparantly the short stories she published was called “Secrets of the Fire King” and then her other novel revolves around a secret. That’s all well and good but it gets boring after a while. End of comment. I agree with everyone’s complaints on this page. It had a lot of potential and wiggle room to make itself interesting, but it was too slow and unnatural. The characters seemed awkward to me when they spoke. Norah’s character fell victim to this the most I think. Overall, disappointing, but still worth consuming. Maybe.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-29 05:29:45.
(Language: English)
This book is a moving fictional account of the type of love that can cause so much pain. How a secret not told can cause a family to fall apart no matter how much you try and put the past behind you. How lives so separate can meet and how it only takes a minute to undo all that was done. Even if it can take years to get over the pain and forgive. You are always wondering whether his secret will come out soon. There are twists in the plot that you do not expect which keeps the reader reading on. An intriguing read, a non-stop, could not put the book down. Surprised at the sudden death of one of the main characters - which was not expected. Disappointing that there is not much into the relationships that could develop between the characters. Would have been interesting to read more into the relationship that had developed after a couple of years. Like the way it skipped years in the book, the last chapter could have been a description of how the bother and sister were now - like maybe the wedding of Phoebe and Robert with her brother there and a description of their relationship. OVERALL RATING : 4/5 due to the possibility of an extended ending.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-18 08:40:12.
(Language: English)
Kim Edwards' "The Memory Keepers Daughter" is a good, emotionally charged story. Whilst it is well written I found I did not really care about her characters. Each chapter or so presents the story from a different view point and I could easily have skipped the chapters concerning Norah, David and their son Paul. These characters were not likeable. At times I could not understand their motives. They whined, they complained and made pretty lousy excuses for some pretty lousy behavior. The story surrounding Caroline was far more interesting, yet still much of what she did was unexplainable. Edwards' novel is repetitive and, at times, I simply wanted her to get on with the story. She constantly reinforced the reasons why David felt so guilty and why Norah felt so empty. I cannot understand the need for repetition like this - it is not a TV series where I need to catch up on what happened in last week's episode. The repetitive nature of the book makes it drag a little in places.I found that Edwards did not successfully write from the male perspective. I found the male characters very contrived and they simply did not work for me. This is not a bad read. The story is a good one. However, it is hard to really get into a novel when you simply do not care about the characters. At times I just wanted to slap them all.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-07 09:17:18.
(Language: English)
Some SPOILERS:Just didn't like the writing style nor the story. Such a DRAG; took ages to finish with its run-on, redundant sentences. Very obvious, repetitive symbolism--the camera, the flowing water, the pictures. Very shoddy character development--they all just seemed totally depressed all the time...even Caroline, whose struggles paid off so positively, should have been more happy. Could not understand how two people so in love could break away so easily just due to one secret (esp after David tried his hardest to set everything right). Norah and Paul were purely selfish characters that didn't care about anyone's happiness save their own. Caroline's anger towards David was justified in the beginning but not after he absolutely repented his past actions. His was the only character I cared about and Edwards chose to give him the most undeserved finish. Overall, an idea that could have spawned a much better story--but it didn't. The book did not live up to its bestseller hype--not for me.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-20 04:46:11.
(Language: English)
It was quite a depressing book, but it gave me some comfort knowing that it is impossible to control everything in life and to do so could make things a lot worse than it would have been and destroy from the inside out. Life is like water; it will always find its way around. "Either things grow and change or they die." "More than once he considered getting in his car and driving like wild home to Cincinnati, but he knew it would do no good. Knew, too, that he didn't really want to go on this way, always loving Michelle more than she could love him back. So he forced himself to stay." I need a another book.
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eva posted a review at 2011-05-07 07:08:21.
(Language: English)
I thought this book had a GREAT concept. I was quite excited to read this book. And for the most part, its quite adequate. To me, it seems like a first novel. It's not written exceptional well and really isn't even edited very well. I think she takes on too much trying to write from too many perspectives. I wish she would have narrowed it down and focus on just a few character's lives, reactions, struggles and demons. Overall, the concept is so great, it carries the novel, but I think she could have done so much more with it. Pick it up, good read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-01 05:03:38.
(Language: English)
The storyline was compelling, so much so that it propelled the book past its weaknesses. The author creates intricate characters, attributing voice to their perspectives, not being afraid to give them faults (because they all have very many), and exhibiting a clear picture of their relationships with one another. There is a great deal of sadness in the book. I found myself deeply unsettled by some of the events and attaching myself, in a very strong way, to certain characters. Now for the bad: This is a very heavy read. The author uses a dense writing style and, at times, you may find yourself impatient, wrestling with the horrendously slow movement of the story and often, the repeated descriptions and word choice. The characters DO evolve over the course of the story, but in that same vein, there are aspects of them that should change but do not. You may find yourself rolling your eyes at a number of their thoughts and actions, feeling that you have heard it too many times to count. But as I said, the storyline will propel you. It's worth the read.
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Wendy posted a review at 2007-10-09 03:09:05.
(Language: English)
This is a story about how the choices one makes in a split second can affect you and everyone around you for years to come. Dr. David Henry has to choose between his Down Syndrome baby daughter and his wife and "normal" son or he thinks he has to. His son and daughter are twins, born in Dr. Henry's office with only his nurse in attendance. Dr. Henry chooses to send the baby girl off with his nurse to be given to an institution and he tells his wife that the daughter was born dead. The nurse, Caroline, decides that the institution is no place for the girl to be raised and she decides to go away and raise Phoebe as her own daughter. Even though his wife and son don't know that Phoebe is alive, they sense that there is something missing in their life and the family disintegrates bit by bit. Caroline, on the other hand, is strengthened by her decision and makes enduring friendships as a result. My rating of this story would probably have been even higher if I could have accepted the beginning as plausible. The book raises important questions about how society views people with mental challenges. And it raises even more important issues about interpersonal relationships. My book club thought it was well-written although we all had problems with the beginning. If you can suspend your judgment of the implausibility of the critical scene at the beginning, you will find this an engaging read.
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jimtown posted a review at 2009-10-03 06:20:41.
(Language: English)
The Memory Keeper is a camera and it was a gift to David from his wife. It seems at first that she chooses well for David finds photography a nice diversion. Soon however, he becomes obsessed with photography to the point of not quite living his life but seeing it through the lens. There are much deeper problems in this marriage however. David, a bone doctor, drives his lovely, pregnant wife Norah in to the clinic in a fierce snowstorm. It's as far as he can make it before he has to deliver their baby with the help of his nurse, Caroline Gill. His son, Paul, is born, beautiful and perfect. A surprise, a second baby, a girl is also born that night. David can see that she has Down Syndrome. He makes a decision in that moment that will haunt the rest of his days and put a distance between him, Norah and Paul that they find unexplainable. He hands the baby girl to Caroline Gill telling her to take the baby to a home he knows of for such children. He tells Norah about the twin but that the baby girl had died. I think that was his second mistake for Norah never stops grieving for her lost daughter even though they both adore their son Paul, the loss shadows over every day of their lives. Caroline, on seeing the home, doesn't leave baby Phoebe there. She makes a decision to leave town and she raises Phoebe. Time moves swiftly in this story and over the years, Caroline sends letters and photos to David from time to time. Even though he deeply regrets his decision, he is never able to tell Norah what he did. He never meets Phoebe. I think perhaps he not so much as wishes to have his daughter back as to repair the damage his deceit did to his family. Norah goes on to become successful but there are times she strays and David forgives her this because of his own guilt. Paul has a lot of anger, feeling he never lives up to his father's expectations. In the end however, Norah and Paul do meet Phoebe, life goes on. There are a couple touching moments and all are very accepting of one another. Life is shaped by the choices we make. The story gets more involved but I won't here. One of the parts I found especially interesting was when David went back to his childhood home to face his past. Here is an excerpt: "It took him nearly an hour to reach the old house, now weather-beaten a soft gray, the roof sagging at the center of the ridgepole and some of the shingles missing. David stopped, taken so powerfully into the past that he expected to see them again: his mother coming down the steps with a galvanized tin tub to collect water for the laundry, his sister sitting on the porch, and the sound of the ax striking logs from where his father chopped firewood, just out of sight... The place was as familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon. The wind rose. He walked up the steps. The door hung crookedly on its hinges and would not close. The air inside was chilly, musty. It was a single room, the sleeping loft compromised now by the sagging ridgepole. The walls were water-stained, through chinks, he glimpsed pale sky. He'd helped his father put the roof on, sweat pouring down their faces and sap on their hands, their hammers rising into the sun, into the sharp fragrance of fresh cut cedar. As far as David knew, no one had been here for years. Yet a frying pan sat on the old stove, cold, the grease congealed, but not, when he leaned in to smell it, rancid. In the corner there was an old iron bed covered with a worn quilt like his grandmother and his mother had made. The cloth was cool, faintly damp, beneath his hand. There was no mattress, only a thick layering of blankets against the boards set into the frame. The plank floor was swept clean and there were three crocuses in a jar in the window. Someone was living here."
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