The Stolen Child
by:
Keith Donohue (author)
Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings near his home. They give Henry a new name, Aniday. The group has left another child in Henry's place. This changeling boy, morphed into Henry's duplicate, must hide his true identity from the Day family. Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively for who...
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Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings near his home. They give Henry a new name, Aniday. The group has left another child in Henry's place. This changeling boy, morphed into Henry's duplicate, must hide his true identity from the Day family. Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively for who they were before they changed places in the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099490593 (0099490595)
Publish date: March 1st 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 319
Edition language: English
I've had this standing on my tbr-shelves for ages, and finally got around to reading it. Unfortunately it wasn't quite as good as I had expected, although still good enough to hold my attention nicely the few days it took me to finish it.The book is really two intertwining stories, with every second...
Intriguing twist on the world of fantasy. I was totally engrossed in this book from page one. The narrator switch from hobgoblin/child to child/hobgoblin was a delight to me, I loved hearing the different viewpoints of their parallel yet wildly differing worlds especially along the points where they...
Henry Day is an average seven year old child, if a little sullen. Angry at his mother, and wishing to punish her, he runs off into the woods and ceases to be an average child. Stolen by the changelings, creatures of the woods, who prey on innocent children, stealing their lives, he is fated to wai...
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