Summary
Inspired by the poem by W.B. Yeats about the common folk legend of the fairy changelings, this beguiling and truly original tale moves from contemporary America to nineteenth-century Germany and deep into humankind’s most basic fantasies and fears.
Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings living in the dark forest near his home - ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. They give Henry a new name, Aniday, and the gift of ageless…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784706159 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784706159 |
| Author: | Keith Donohue |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A welcome addition to the field of contemporary fantasy…sparklingly quirky.. wistfully elegiac…Overall it is a gently redemptive parable about becoming oneself
A welcome addition to the field of contemporary fantasy…sparklingly quirky.. wistfully elegiac…Overall it is a gently redemptive parable about becoming oneself * Scotland on Sunday *
Keith Donohue evokes the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder. The Stolen Child is unsentimental and vividly imagined. I enjoyed it immensely – Audrey Niffenegger
A remarkably deep and strange read * Arena *
Remarkably accomplished * Guardian *
Utterly absorbing…Impressive…Beautiful…A luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity * Washington Post *
A wonderful, fantasy-laden debut…a novel of great power and sadness * Newsweek *
An unusual and innovative story * The Works *
Keith Donohue
Keith Donohue is the Director of Communications for the grant-making arm of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post and is the author of the novel Angels of Destruction.
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