Resumo de Memory Keeper''s Daughter

Have you ever made a decision that you regret? Or worse, a decision that you regret for the rest of your life? A split second decision that changes not just your life but those of your entire family?

MEMORY KEEPER?S DAUGHTER captures the torment of a doctor (David Henry) who in his desperate attempt to protect his wife (Norah) and his son (Paul), gave away his daughter born Downs Syndrome. Or is he merely trying to save himself the pain his mother has to go through with his sister who died at a very young age? Are memories from the past responsible for his decision that causes him and his family life time suffering? Is he simply too much a coward to live through the nightmare of any parent can ever dream of?

While I am turning page after page to see when David is turning back to correct his mistake, I cannot help but weep with him for there is no turning back. A decision made rightly or wrongly will run its own course and change all those whose path will be changed by it.

Born with silver spoon in his mouth as outsiders will view him, Paul is a very talented guitarist. However as he desperately tries to get closer to his father, he only realizes that each step he takes he is getting further and further away from him. Angered and betrayed by his mother?s love affairs, Paul feels the growing silence in their house and between their parents suffocating. And when his father returns with a runaway pregnant teenager who seems to connect with his father better than Paul, he can no longer take the madness of the mystery around his father and has to break away.

Ever since she has been told of her daughter?s death at childbirth, Norah tries so hard to put the tragedy behind. But the invisible wall between her and her husband is impossible to break. Turning her to find love among other men and towards her career and eventually her business. But still there is only emptiness she feels is surrounding her except for her tie with Bree, her sister, strengthening as the silence is threatening to tear her family apart.

Caroline Gill, David?s assistant in the hospital, knows all about David?s secret but she disappears from the horizon after the birth of Norah?s children. Hopelessly in love with David, Caroline too has to make a decision that changes her life forever. She fought hard

Can they all find what they are looking for in the end? Is it love or redemption? Or is it forgiveness? Or is it too late?

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