Book 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 he'd befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands-and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college…
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1 author picked The Stolen Child as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I don't read a lot of fiction, and as I started reading this I was thinking: With so much to learn in the world, why am I reading a made up story..
That lasted about ten minutes as I was sucked in to these worlds and the characters and emotions! And by the end, I understood, all over again, why we read fiction. The emotionality was so raw and so deep, and I honestly can't stop thinking about these characters and the choices they made in their lives, and in retrospect, thinking about the choices I have made!
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