A first novel for the author, well written and a good read. A distinuished surgeon delivers his wife's twins during a snowstorm. The first twin is a healthy boy. The second twin is a girl. the surgeon recognises immediately that she has Down's syndrome. As a result of his own personal history with a much loved sister with the condition who monopolised his mother's time and died of a heart condition as an early teenaged he decides to spare his wile(and himself) the pain he anticipates. He asks his nurse to take his daughter to a residential home and he tells his wife that their daughter was stillborn. The book follows the childhood and young adulthood of both twins. It is thoughtfully constructed and very thought provoking.

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