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: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.28w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780393609806
Language: English
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