<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 69010346 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses . Published by Viking Press in June 2005, the novel garnered great interest via word of mouth in the summer of 2006 and placed on the New York Times Paperback Bestsellers List . The novel was adapted to television film and broadcast on Lifetime Television in April 2008 . </P> <P> In early March of 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his wife Norah's twins with the help of a nurse, Caroline Gill . Their first child, a boy they name Paul, is born a healthy perfect child, but when the second baby is born, Phoebe, David notices she has Down syndrome . David, recalling the possibility of a heart defect and early death (which his younger sister June had had; dying at the young age of twelve) and decides that the baby girl will be placed in an institution . </P> <P> Caroline was given the baby to take to the institution, but simply didn't like the conditions . She decides to keep and raise the baby, who is named Phoebe . While Caroline is at the store, her car runs out of fuel and she is stranded in the snow with Phoebe . She is picked up by a truck driver, Al Simpson, who drives them to Caroline's home . Meanwhile, David tells Norah that their daughter died at birth . After hearing that Caroline had kept Phoebe rather than take her to the institution, David bids her to do what she thinks is right . Caroline leaves for Pittsburgh to make a fresh start with Phoebe . </P>

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