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This is one of James Patterson's novels that is different from the others that he usually writes, the murder mystery novels, such as Kiss the Girls, Marry Marry, etc.

This one is about treasuring every moment with the special one & about being thankful for what you have. It's about families, love, loss, new love & hope.

Some readers confuse this particular Patterson's writing with Nicholas Sparks. Yet, it seems like Sparks' fans don't mind the similarity, they even enjoy it.

Synopsis:

New York book editor Katie Wilkinson believed that she found her soul mate in poet-house painter Matt Harrison. However, instead of a lifetime together, they share a year before Matt vanishes. After disappearing from her life, Matt mails Katie a diary written by his wife Suzanne.

Katie cannot help but read the journal that Suzanne has written to her and Matt's son. She explains how she was a yuppie doctor in Boston until she suffered a heart attack in her mid thirties. Knowing she needed a lifestyle change, Suzanne fled to Martha's Vinyard where she falls in love with Matt. They marry and have a child. As she reads, Katie begins to feel she knows Suzanne and Nicholas as old friends. Still even she wonders if she should try to see Matt one last time once she finishes the cherished diary lovingly written by a mother to a son?

This is one of the books turned into a movie.

Label: novel

This debut of Kim Edwards is stunning. The Memory Keeper's Daughter explores how a family face a problem within, grief, lost.

Knowing that one of the twins his wife just gives birth to, a daughter has Down Syndrom--the other one, a boy, is healthy, Dr. David Henry asks his nurse--who secretly loves him--, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Yet, the nurse decided to raise the child herself.

Live a separate life, they also live a different life. The baby girl is raised with love while the baby boy is raised with tension. The mother grieves the loss of her twin baby girl. And, the father lives in his own world of guilt not knowing if his decision was right or wrong.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel with psychological depth. It will touch all its reader's heart.

Label: novel