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It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever.

Kurz vor ihrem 30. Geburtstag kehrt Weltenbummlerin Lucy Jarrett in ihre Heimatstadt The Lake of Dreams zurück. Während ihr Freund Yoshi zunächst beruflich in Japan bleiben muss, empfangen sie zu Haus unerwartete und schmerzliche Konflikte: Ihre Mutter beginnt ein neues Liebesverhältnis, während Lucy den ungeklärten Tod ihres Vaters nie verwunden hat. Sie selbst begegnet ihrer Jugendliebe Keegan wieder, was alte Gefühle in ihr lebendig werden lässt. Schließlich findet sie in einem verborgenen Schrank geheimnisvolle Dokumente.

Nachdem ihre Mutter bei einem Autounfall verletzt wird, begibt sich die Weltenbummlerin Lucy Jarrett zurück in ihre Heimat nach Amerika. Dort wird sie mit ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontiert und stößt auf Dokumente, die sie auf die Spur lange verschütteter Familiengeheimnisse bringen: Nach und nach erfährt Lucy mehr über eine vergessene Vorfahrin namens Rose - und schon bald erkennt sie, daß die Familiengeschichte umgeschrieben werden muß.

Strong female protagonists grace this collection of passionate stories dedicated to mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers. A woman splurges on an irresistible coat that becomes her; a feisty teenager who has grown up as her activist mother¿s poster-child realizes the strength of her own convictions; and a young peasant woman saved from drowning is suddenly drawn to her rescuer and hopeful about her life.

Kim Edwards now gives us the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family's rambling lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that first appear to be useless curiosities, but soon reveal a deeper and more complex family past.

Showcasing the intensity and preception of a truly gifted writer, this collection of stories by the author of the number-one New York Times best-seller The Memory Keeper's Daughter transports us to exotic locations as it follows the lives of those on the fringes of society: a fire-eater, an American and his Korean war bride, a juggler and a trapeze artist, and a cleaning woman whose life is interwoven with Marie Curie's.

Kim Edwards' stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead she disappears into another city to raise the child herself.