The Children's Book

by A S Byatt narrated by Nicolette McKenzie

Genre: Fiction > Modern Fiction

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From the Booker prize-winning author of Possession.

Synopsis

Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children at her side. For each of them she writes a separate private book. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, those of their rich cousins and of their friends are already inscribed with mystery...

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Reviews & Press Quotes

Observer

“The stories within stories of these two intertwined aesthete families between 1895 and 1919 are like an Edwardian Christmas pudding, fatly stuffed with fruits and flavours. Listening is best limited to 30 minutes a day so that the period detail and the didactic setpieces may be savoured.”

The Independent

“...The Children's Book... reassures us there will be more worlds, more unique social juxtapositions and more potted educations from Byatt.”

The Sunday Times

“Intellectual zest keeps the book sizzling with ideas... this is the most stirring novel Byatt has written since Possession.”

Content Advisory

• Violence: Strong
• Sex: Mild
• Language: Mild

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