Description
For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist hed befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his handsand disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery. The journey leads them from Paris galleries and provincial towns to a surprising place: the Museum of Tears, the lifes work of a lonely Italian craftsman. Determined to find the baby and the artist, hopeless romantic Jenny and curmudgeonly Nick must reckon with regret, betrayal, and the lives theyve left behind.
With characteristic warmth and verve, Ann Hood captures a world of possibility and romance through the eyes of a young woman learning to claim her place in it. The Stolen Child is an engaging, timeless novel of secrets, love lost and found, and the nature of forgiveness.
Author: Ann Hood
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781324110392
Language: English
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