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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Keith Donohue’s first novel, *The Stolen Child*, was a national bestseller hailed as “captivating” (USA Today), “luminous and thrilling” (Washington Post), and “wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that it’s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, *Angels of Destruction*, opens on a winter’s night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door. The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the woman’s loss. Together, they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn, and enlist Sean Fallon, a classmate and heartbroken boy, to guide her into the school and town. Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to those children and neighbors intrigued by Norah’s mysterious and magical qualities but by a lone figure s

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Donohue, Keith
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307450258
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
Rating
3.24 / 5 (1,020 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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