Before the birth of their twins, Dr. David Henry and his wife Norah are a normal, happy couple. That all changes in a instant when Dr. David while delivering his own twins decides to keep the son born healthy and to put the little girl born with Down's Syndrome in an institution. The snow has blanketed the city in silence and only his nurse, Caroline, and himself are at the clinic. The shape of the baby girl's eyes tells him the story. He remembers his sister with eyes shaped just like the baby's and how his mother had to deal with her dying at an early age. He quickly passes the baby to the Nurse and decides to tell Norah that the little girl died. He instructed Caroline to take the baby to an institution.
I his haste he never thought or the possible ramifications of his action - he never thought how he would live with the action of giving away a child and of telling his wife such a lie. He also had no way of knowing that Caroline would take the baby girl, Phoebe, and raise her as her own.
The book starts off at a good pace as the story unfolds and the characters are introduced. I found the story intriguing but the characters appeared flat and often too aloof. The book fell short of expectations by the middle which lead to a disappointing and uneventful end. The one redeeming outcome of the book is the constant question that plagues your own mind while reading it: Would you be able to define a pivotal point in your life when you made a critical mistake and then be able to correct that error? Or are there mistakces you can never correct? Mistakes you just simply take to the grave, leaving the survivors to pick up the pieces.
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