The Children's Book

ISBN: 0307473066

Author: Byatt, A. S.

Condition: Used

NATIONAL BESTSELLER MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a story that spans the Victorian era through World War I about a childrens author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones.Majestic ... Dazzling ... Wonderful. -The San Francisco ChronicleWhen childrens book author Olive Wellwoods oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful bacchanals Olive hosts at her rambling country house-and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children-conceal more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. The Wellwoods personal struggles and hidden desires unravel against a breathtaking backdrop of the cliff-lined shores of England to Paris, Munich, and the trenches of the Somme, as the Edwardian period dissolves into World War I and Europes golden era comes to an end.