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  The Children's Book (Vintage International (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) A. S. Byatt

  

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  Short Description for The Children's BookThis spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession," spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Published: 10 August 2010
  • Format: Paperback 883 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | General
  • ISBN 13: 9780307473066 ISBN 10: 0307473066
  • Sales rank: 68,537

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Full description for The Children's Book

• From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a deeply affecting story of a singular family. 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.