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THE STOLEN CHILD
A NOVEL
Keith Donohue
 PUBLISHED BY NAN A.TALESE
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Copyright © 2006 by Keith Donohue

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DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations,
places, events, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales
is entirely coincidental.

Excerpt from "Night" from The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan, © 1968.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Book design by Maria Carella

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Donohue, Keith.
The stolen child / Keith Donohue.— 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Double—Fiction. 2. Pianists—Fiction. 3. Changelings—Fiction. 4. Kidnapping victims—Fiction.
5. Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. 6. Germany—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3604.O5654S76 2006
813'.6—dc22 2005053828

ISBN-10: 0-385-51616-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-51616-7

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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First Edition
For Dorothy and Thomas, wish you were here
"We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory."
"NOSTOS" BY LOUISE GLUCK
 • CHAPTER 1 •


Don't call me a fairy. We don't like to be called fairies anymore. Once upon a time, fairy was a
perfectly acceptable catchall for a variety of creatures, but now it has taken on too many associations.
Etymologically speaking, a fairy is something quite particular, related in kind to the na-iads, or water
nymphs, and while of the genus, we are sui generis. The word fairy is drawn from fay (Old French fee),