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  1. May 7, 2024 · Despite marrying another woman, he spends the next 57 years tortured by the seeming impossibility of discovering their fates. In 1974, isolated, depressed, and bitter, he receives a strange new lease on life: a terminal cancer diagnosis.

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  2. The Stolen Child Ann Hood’s new book tells a bittersweet story of a search for atonement and for freedom from past mistakes. During a hurried journey across France and Italy, a seriously ill man and the young woman caring for him, find that the answers are there for them to discover in the end.

  3. An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child's fate in this moving, page-turning novel from 'a gifted storyteller' (People).

  4. May 7, 2024 · The Stolen Child by Ann Hood is an intense, gripping historical fiction novel starts out during World War I when a woman trusts a young soldier named Nick with her paintings and her baby. Fast forward to 1974 when a dying Nick asks Jenny to help him unravel the mystery of what happened to the child.

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  5. May 9, 2006 · 3.73. 11,516 ratings1,465 reviews. Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree.

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  6. Review by Jean Huets. The Stolen Child interweaves three stories told over several time periods. Nick Burns’s story begins in a trench in World War I France when a woman literally hands him her newborn son, then jumps to the 1970s when he seeks a final reckoning with his abandonment of the baby.

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  8. Jun 11, 2006 · The Stolen Child is the top fiction seller on Amazon.com — even though major reviewers all but ignored it. Amazon sent galley copies to customer reviewers, who share their critiques for free.

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