Families have secrets they hide even from themselves... It should have been an ordinary birth the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wifes twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though Davids son is a healthy boy his daughter has Downs syndrome. And in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse. As grief quietly tears apart Davids family so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can. This also includes the first chapter of Kim Edwards new novel The Lake of Dreams (Viking 2011).
