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On a summer's night, seven-year-old Henry Day runs away from home and is kidnapped by a strange group of wild children who reside in the forest.
No ordinary kidnappers, these fairy changelings spirit Henry Day away from his home and make him one of their own.
In keeping with the folk tradition, the changelings leave in his place a double – a boy who takes up Henry's place in the world.
Each of them have to adjust to a new way of life – Henry Day, who has since been renamed Aniday, is condemned to be stuck in the body of a seven-year-old for life, and while he grows cognitively, he struggles to re-create the memories of the family that he unwittingly left behind.
And then there's the new Henry Day, who has to find his place in the human world without giving away his true identity to the Day family.
Written as a double autobiography, narrated alternately by Henry Day, the impostor, and Aniday, the human-turned-fairy changeling, The Stolen Child magically and effortlessly threads themes of stolen identities, forgotten pasts and lost childhoods in one exquisitely compelling novel.
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