The author of "The Book That Matters Most" and "The Obituary Writer," reads from and discusses her new novel "The Stolen Child" at this book launch event. Book signing to follow.
About the Book (from the publisher):
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 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 life’s 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 they’ve 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.
About the Author:
Ann Hood is the editor of "Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting" and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books including "The Book That Matters Most", "The Knitting Circle", "The Red Thread", "Comfort", and "An Italian Wife", among other works. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, a Best American Food Writing Award, a Best American Travel Writing Award, and the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.