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Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...

It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy

family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night

that will haunt five lives for ever.

For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome.

And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will

reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her

care to a nurse.

As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her

own way in the world as best she can.

Kim Edwards (born 1958) is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2006), is a New York Times Bestseller.

She wrote the short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King (1997), which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won both a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of Colgate University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.