- Booker Prize 2009 · Shortlist
The Children's Book
The Children's Book
A. S. Byatt (born 1936)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Children's Book
Vintage · United Kingdom · 4 October 2018 · Paperback · 624 pages
The Children's Book
Alfred A. Knopf · United States · October 2009 · Hardcover · 688 pages
The Children's Book
Chatto & Windus · United Kingdom · 2009 · 617 pages
The Children's Book
Vintage · United States · 10 August 2010 · Paperback · 896 pages
* Affiliate link. As an Amazon Associate and a Bookshop.org affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. The price stays the same for you.
Olive Wellwood keeps her large Fabian household afloat with fairy tales, and she also writes a secret, separately bound story for every one of her children. Her eldest son Tom comes across Philip, a runaway, drawing in the cellars of the South Kensington museum, and the boy is swept into the Wellwoods' make-believe life at their sprawling home near Romney Marsh, among wealthy relatives, a museum curator's son and daughter, and the Fludds, the unhappy family of a gifted potter. From 1895 the young people come of age through long Edwardian summers, the boys turning against the adults while the girls hope for lives of their own, while the grown-ups' parties, principles and private longings hide betrayals. Paris, Munich and at last the Somme lie ahead.
AI-generated summary
About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family, Historical, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, France, Germany, 1895–1918
- First published
- 2009
- Author's age
- 73 when first published
- ISBN
-
9780307272096 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)
9780701183899 (Chatto & Windus, United Kingdom)
9780307473066 (Vintage, United States)
9780099535454 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
- More
- Wikidata