An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a childβs fate in this moving, page-turning novel from βa gifted storytellerβ (PEOPLE).
For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist heβd befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his handsβand 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 through Parisian galleries and provincial towns to a surprising place: the Museum of Tears, the lifeβs 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 theyβve 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.
βThis is a lovely story about two artists meeting in the midst of World War I, a missing baby, and an intelligent, lost young woman helping an old man fix the mistakes of his past. I loved Nick and Jenny from the moment I met them, and had all my fingers crossed that they would find not only what they were looking for, but themselves.ββAnn Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful