Xpresso Reads

When Dr Henry delivers his unexpected twins, he notices that one of them has down syndrome. While his wife is under he gives her away to be sent to an institution. Caroline, the nurse who was supposed to take the baby to that institution, an awful place once she got there, decides to keep the baby and raise her as her own. Sounds good right? Yeah I thought so too.The premise of this book lured me and I thought for sure I would like it. On the contrary, I found it very long and tedious. Like I was reading homework. It started out well, interesting enough, but then it began dragging on, nothing really happened for a long while and I lost interest.The characters were flat and predictable. The plot, for a little while, seemed to be building up to some sort of climax, but then it just deteriorated. It was also very stereotypical and full of clichés : Husband feeling guilty with his secret, leads to an unhappy marriage and cheating wife.The writing was mediocre. The details were overdone - we don't need to know, or care, how the ground looks! - and there were also a lot of weird references. Like when the author goes on, at the start and in detail, about breastfeeding and milk coming in. What did that add to the book? Especially that it was never brought up again. I found myself wanting to skip over a lot of parts not knowing if she was going somewheres with this, or if it was just another unnecessary passage. I think this would have been a much better story if it started when Norah finds out about her daughter being alive.