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Keith Donohues first novel The Stolen Child was a national bestsellerhailed as captivating USA Today luminous and thrilling WashingtonPost and wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that its impossible not tobe moved Newsweek. His new novel Angels of Destruction opens on a wintersnight when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn a widowwho lives alone. A decade earlier she had lost her only child Erica who fledwith her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as theAngels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours shewhispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door. The girl whoclaims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go beguilesMargaret offering some solace some compensation for the womans loss.Together they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughterNorah Quinn and enlist Sean Fallon a classmate and heartbroken boy to guideher into the school and town. Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to thosechildren and neighbors intrigued by Norahs mysterious and magical qualitiesbut by a lone figure shadowing the girl who threatens to reveal the childstrue identity and her purpose in Margarets life. Who are these strangersreally? And what is their connection to the past the Angels and the longmissing daughter? Angels of Destruction is an unforgettable story of hope andfear heartache and redemption. The saga of the Quinn family unfolds against anAmerica wracked by change. As it delicately dances on the line between the realand the imagined this mesmerizing new novel confirms Keith Donohues standingas one of our most inspiring and inventive novelists. From the Hardcoveredition. «
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