The Children's Book |
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Author:
| Byatt, A. S. |
Series title: | Vintage International Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-307-47306-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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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 children's author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones. "Majestic ... Dazzling ... Wonderful." --The San Francisco Chronicle When children's book author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a...
More Description 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 children's author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones.
"Majestic ... Dazzling ... Wonderful." --The San Francisco Chronicle
When children's book author Olive Wellwood's 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 Europe's golden era comes to an end.