Written in English
Booker 2009 · Shortlist
The Children's Book
The Children's Book
A. S. Byatt · 73 when first published
Novel · 688 pages · Family, Historical, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In 1895 Olive Wellwood, a celebrated writer of fairy stories who writes a private book for each of her children, takes in Philip, a runaway boy her eldest son has found drawing in a London museum's cellars.