The Memory Keeper's Daughter

I loved this book because it was an easy read but at the same time dealt with some quite hard hitting issues.
Dr David Henry deliver's his wife's twins. However, the female twin is born with Down's Syndrome. At the time (the book being set in the 1960s) attitudes towards people with disabilities were very different from what they are today. David tells his wife their daughter died while secretly he gives his daughter away to a nurse to be placed in an instituition. The nurse decides she cannot put the girl in an institution and brings her up herself. The book then goes on to deal with the effect this action has. It breaks David's family apart, and tells the story of how the girl makes her own way in the world.
It is a real page turner, drawing you into the plot. It is hard to understand how anyone could do what David did, but you can see that he did it because he was trying to protect the people he loved, even if it turned out to be the wrong thing to do. This book is interesting because of the time it was set in and people's attitudes back then. Hopefully this kind of thing would not happen in today's world.