By Kim Edwards. The only book i have enjoyed this much is "The God Of Small Things" years and years ago. Allow me to gush for a minute about how great this book is. Its just amazing. The prose, the story, the characters, the location everything is just perfect.
The charcters and their surroundings come alive when you read this book.
Its about a family, Dr David Henry, his wife Norah and their children. During childbirth Norah gives birth to a healthy boy and a girl with Down's Syndrome. David decides to save his family from the grief of raising a challenged child and hands the child over to his faithful nurse Caroline Gill and asks her to leave the child in an asylum for people suffering from Downs. Caroline who is in love with David refuses to leave the child in the asylum after seeing the horrible conditions there and decides to raise the child herself. She lets David know that by frequent letters. David meanwhile tells Norah that her daughter died at childbirth. Norah is happy about the healthy boy Paul but feels an inexplicable pain when she thinks about her lost daughter. The rest of her life is colored by that loss. The marriage falls apart after more than twenty years.
I will not tell you how the book ends, because the ending made the book even more beautiful than it already is. Now i understand what the hype was all about. This is a must read.
The charcters and their surroundings come alive when you read this book.
Its about a family, Dr David Henry, his wife Norah and their children. During childbirth Norah gives birth to a healthy boy and a girl with Down's Syndrome. David decides to save his family from the grief of raising a challenged child and hands the child over to his faithful nurse Caroline Gill and asks her to leave the child in an asylum for people suffering from Downs. Caroline who is in love with David refuses to leave the child in the asylum after seeing the horrible conditions there and decides to raise the child herself. She lets David know that by frequent letters. David meanwhile tells Norah that her daughter died at childbirth. Norah is happy about the healthy boy Paul but feels an inexplicable pain when she thinks about her lost daughter. The rest of her life is colored by that loss. The marriage falls apart after more than twenty years.
I will not tell you how the book ends, because the ending made the book even more beautiful than it already is. Now i understand what the hype was all about. This is a must read.
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My bookclub read it last year. I was so angry at the husband.
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