Skip to product information
1 of 1

The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt

The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt

Regular price $17.50 NZD
Regular price Sale price $17.50 NZD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries their own secrets. Into their world comes a young stranger, a working-class boy from the potteries; and in midsummer a German puppeteer arrives, bringing dark dramas. This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich, and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of the darkness ahead. In their innocence, they were betrayed unintentionally by the adults who loved them. In a profound sense, this novel is indeed the children's book. This 2009 Chatto & Windus Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780701183905 SKU: 1290501 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Fiction
View full details