Segredos de Família

A captivating and deeply moving read, Family Secrets is a brilliant story about parallel lives and the redemptive power of love. The story of this remarkable novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a snowstorm forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his twin children. The son, the firstborn, is perfectly healthy, but David immediately realizes that the daughter has Down syndrome. Convinced he is doing the right thing, David makes a rash decision that will forever overshadow their lives. He asks Caroline, the nurse, to take the baby to an institution, but she ends up fleeing to another city, where she will raise the baby as her own daughter.