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- The story follows the lives of two Henry Day; the Henry Day who is stolen by changelings as a child and becomes one of them, and the changeling who takes Henry Day's place in the human world.
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May 9, 2006 · The Stolen Child, which takes its name and inspiration from the Yeats poem, tells the story of two characters: Aniday is a human child who is stolen by changelings and lives in their world, and Henry Day is the changeling who takes his place and grows up in the real world.
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May 9, 2006 · The Stolen Child is a classic tale of leaving childhood and the search for identity. With just the right mix of fantasy and realism, Keith Donohue has created a bedtime story for adults and a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange delights.
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May 9, 2006 · Twins and other twosomes figure predominantly in the book: Henry and Aniday, Tess and Speck, Big Oscar and Little Oscar, Edward and Gustav, Mary and Elizabeth. Other characters form pairs: Luchog and Smaolach, Kivi and Blomma, Onions and Beka, George Knoll and Jimmy Cummings.
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Seven-year-old Henry Day is hoping to run away from his family and his mundane miseries when he’s abducted by changelings and thrown into water in a kind of pagan baptism. Yeats celebrated these legendary, ageless woodland sprites, and Donohue updates their myth.
Jun 11, 2006 · Writer Keith Donohue's debut novel, The Stolen Child, is a contemporary re-working of the legend of the changeling, the story of children taken away from their parents by fairies.
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May 8, 2007 · Paperback – May 8, 2007. by Keith Donohue (Author) 4.3 537 ratings. See all formats and editions. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A haunting fable about identity and the illusory innocence of childhood that moves from small-town America deep into the forest of humankind's most basic desires and fears.
Jul 3, 2006 · "Just finished reading The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue, a wonderful chronicle of two children's lives -- one [of them is] a "changeling" who steals [main character] Henry Day's life, but...
