Just read: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Told you I'm reading like I've been deprived of it for ages!

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards is a tale of dark secrets that starts with the birth of a couple's twins -- one of who has Down's Syndrome. The baby girl is given away, and a nurse raises the child.
How this secret plays out for different characters -- the wife Norah, doctor husband David, the son Paul, nurse Caroline and the girl, Phoebe, forms the rest of the story.
I enjoyed the book, and was really curious about the story's ending. The ending did not disappoint (a cliche would have been worse), though it was bit of an anti-climax.
For me, the book should have ended about 10 pages earlier than it had.
I almost feel guilty saying anything negative, because the book was quite a page-turner. I finished it in about three days.
It is a really well-written story, but the emotions overpowered me after a while.
I felt exhausted as one character after another fell into a downward spiral of emotions, briefly bobbing up before being dragged down again.
I wanted to shout, "That's the stupid secret," to all the characters who didn't know it. "Lighten up." Everyone seemed too serious, and talking about emotions all the time.
I may be the only one, but I find prose that actually has characters talk about feelings, rather than have them do things which reflect their feelings, not quite appealing.
All in all, though, a good book. And I need to get out of my spate of reading books about secrets!