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A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, that 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. When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum-a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales-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. As these lives-of adults and children alike-unfold, lies are revealed, hearts are broken, and the damaging truth about the Wellwoods slowly emerges. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn across Europe and a golden era comes to an end. Taking us from the cliff-lined shores of England to Paris, Munich, and the trenches of the Somme, The Children's Book is a deeply affecting story of a singular family, played out against the great, rippling tides of the day.
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Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
030757752x
ISBN-13
9780307577528
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038298516
Product Key Features
Book Title
Children's Book
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2009
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Format
Compact Disc
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Item Height
2.2in.
Item Length
5.9in.
Item Width
5.1in.
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
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Trade
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"Ambitious, accomplished and intelligent . . . Byatt encompasses the paradigm shift from Victorian to modern England in a sweeping tale of four families. The deeper subject, however, is the complex, not always benign bond that attaches children to adults. As the novel opens in 1895, Olive Wellwood seems the model New Woman: popular author of books that reinvent fairy tales for contemporary children, tolerant wife to Fabian Society stalwart Humphry, devoted mother pregnant with her seventh baby. She takes in a working-class boy who longs to make art, and connects him with a master potter whose family belongs to the Wellwoods' progressive, artistic circle. As the narrative unfolds, we see the dark side of these idealists' lives. . . . The gothic sexual interconnections [among the characters] recall Bloomsbury, and Olive is clearly a gloss on E. Nesbit, but this is no mere roman à clef. Byatt's concern is the vast area where utopian visions collide with human nature. . . . Her adult subjects, she writes, 'saw, in a way that earlier generations had not, that children were people, with identities and desires….but they saw this out of a desire of their own for perpetual childhood.' World War I forces everyone to grow up. Byatt has painted her large cast of characters so richly that we care about all of them. In the last chapter, the survivors reunite and dream once more: 'They could make magical plays for a new generation of children.'" Kirkus Reviews "Easily the best thing A. S. Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece,Possession. . . A panoramic cavalcade of a novel [and] a work that superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Peter Kemp,The Sunday Times(London) "Insistently readable . . . Brimming with intelligence and sensuality." Claire Allfree,Metro(UK) (Four stars) "Devastating." Helen Dunmore,The Times(London) "Marvelous . . . [A] sweeping yet intricate account of three middle-class English families navigating the blind turn from the 19th to the 20th centuries. . . . Rapturously immediate and vivid. . . . Substantial and superb . . . Here is Byatt at her historical-novelist best." Geoff Pevere,Toronto Star "Gripping and often deeply affecting . . . Magnificent . . . Lavish . . . A narrative tour de force." Pamela Norris,Literary Review "The sort of high-concept intellectual fiction we'd expect from, well, A. S. Byatt.Possession:the next generation. . . . There is enormous personal sadness in Byatt's novel, which becomes a collective, historical sadness as the novel moves ineluctably towards 1914." Sophie Gee,Financial Times "Brilliant . . . Clear-eyed . . . A staggeringly charged, slyly comic re-creation of the period between the end of the 19th century and the first world war." Alex Clark,The Guardian "Intricately worked and sumptuously inlaid . . .The Children's Bookseethes and pulses with an entangled life, of the mind and the senses alike." Boyd Tonkin,The Independent "An engrossing saga. . . . Byatt captures the innocence of childhood in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras before the onset of the First World War. It is a world of half-hidden secrets, set against a backdrop of social change. A rich historical stew." Sebastian Shakespeare,Tatler "This is [Byatt's]Middlemarch."Sam Leith,The Guardian</, "Easily the best thing A. S. Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece,Possession. . . A panoramic cavalcade of a novel [and] a work that superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Peter Kemp,The Sunday Times(London) "Insistently readable . . . Brimming with intelligence and sensuality." Claire Allfree,Metro(UK) (Four stars) "Devastating." Helen Dunmore,The Times(London) "Marvelous . . . [A] sweeping yet intricate account of three middle-class English families navigating the blind turn from the 19th to the 20th centuries. . . . Rapturously immediate and vivid. . . . Substantial and superb . . . Here is Byatt at her historical-novelist best." Geoff Pevere,Toronto Star "Gripping and often deeply affecting . . . Magnificent . . . Lavish . . . A narrative tour de force." Pamela Norris,Literary Review "The sort of high-concept intellectual fiction we'd expect from, well, A. S. Byatt.Possession:the next generation. . . . There is enormous personal sadness in Byatt's novel, which becomes a collective, historical sadness as the novel moves ineluctably towards 1914." Sophie Gee,Financial Times "Brilliant . . . Clear-eyed . . . A staggeringly charged, slyly comic re-creation of the period between the end of the 19th century and the first world war." Alex Clark,The Guardian "Intricately worked and sumptuously inlaid . . .The Children's Bookseethes and pulses with an entangled life, of the mind and the senses alike." Boyd Tonkin,The Independent "An engrossing saga. . . . Byatt captures the innocence of childhood in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras before the onset of the First World War. It is a world of half-hidden secrets, set against a backdrop of social change. A rich historical stew." Sebastian Shakespeare,Tatler "This is [Byatt's]Middlemarch."Sam Leith,The Guardian "The Children's Bookhas a richness of pictorial décor which reminds one of Edith Wharton'sThe Age of Innocence." John Sutherland,Evening Standard "Beguiling . . . Intelligent, erudite and charming . . . This book made me thirsty: Whenever I put it down, it nagged me to pick it up again. . . . Monumental, pure, beautiful. . . . Byatt can still breathe magical life into historical fiction, giving her abiding interests new relevance with each work." J. C. Sutcliffe,The Globe and Mail "Compelling . . . Fascinating . . . Clear-sighted and evocative . . . An intricate tale, energetically fashioned from sturdy strands of material, by an indefatigable storyteller . . . never less than the real thing." Patricia Craig,The Irish Times "Dazzling . . . Byatt is an artist of exceptional moral enchantment." Jane Shilling,The Daily Telegraph "A seductive tale . . . Byatt favours sexual enlightenment and social promotion and political advance in all its forms." George Walden,New Statesman "A consummate work of art . . . Through the fictional Olive Wellwood, Byatt conjures the period of Peter Pan and H. G. Wells, Fabianism andWind in the Willows." Stuart Kelly,Scotland on Sunday "Compulsively readable . . . Extraordinarily rich." Caroline Moore,<, "Engaging and rewarding . . . Spanning the two and a half decades before the First World War, [The Children's Book] centers on the Wellwood family, led by a banker with radical inclinations and his wife, the author of best-selling fairy tales. At their country estate, they preside over a motley brood of children and host midsummer parties for fellow-Fabians, exiled Russian anarchists, and German puppeteers. But the idyll contains dark secrets, as a potter whom the family takes in for a time discovers. Byatt is concerned with the complex, often sinister relationship between parent and child, which she explores through various works of art, using them to refract and illuminate the larger narrative." -The New Yorker "Rich, expansive . . . a portrait of a time of imminent change-the years [in England] when the Victorian golden age depreciated into Edwardian silver and then, with World War I, into an 'age of lead.' The novel's early sections take us to the country home of the Wellwoods, who welcome a lost youth into their midst. . . . These scenes contain everything any reader could ever dream of: a romantic country house; neighboring woods containing treehouses and other surprises; garden parties; puppet shows; leisurely intellectual discussions-all meticulously imagined by one of our very best contemporary writers. . . . Byatt captures the modern world's uneasy crawl from its cocoon with a commanding section on the Paris Expo of 1900 . . .[Byatt's] observation of the minutiae of moments in her characters' lives is intense. . . . If she hadn't been a writer, Byatt should have been a naturalist or a painter. At times she captures the natural world with the precision and neutrality of Constable . . . at others, you get the feeling details have been assembled with the cunning of Poussin. . . . 'Cunning' also applies to the novel's stories within stories. . . . Byatt is a spinner of multiple tales, adding gorgeous layers and dimensions to this fictional world. Splendid in themselves, these stories comment on the novel at large. [One of these stories] says the most, I think, about what Byatt achieves inThe Children's Book.Whom does this title refer to? Olive's story 'The People in the House in the House' is a sly, irony-steeped tale of a little girl who captures fairies and imprisons them in her dollhouse, only to be captured herself and imprisoned by a giant child. In watching Byatt's characters, especially parents who insist on clear paths for their young though their own lives are anything but clear, the simple message of that story-that no one is ever in total control-showsThe Children's Bookis a title that applies to everyone." -Nick Owchar,Los Angeles Times Book Review "If you buriedThe Children's Bookunder a few inches of leafy much, it might begin to sprout-that's how alive it is, how potent. David Copperfield, Prospero, Jane Eyre, and others haunt this novel, poised on the cusp of the 20th century, in which a raggedy kiln worker's son crosses class boundaries to practice pottery; a lovely matriarch writes dark fairy tales; children waste away from toxic family secrets; and ambitious women strain against tradition. Byatt is a master storyteller, but even more spellbinding than this novel's descriptions of nature and the supernatural is its intensely personal narrative of the Great War, where dreams of justice and mercy die hard." -Cathleen Medwick,O, The Oprah Magazine "A complete and complex world, a gorgeous bolt of fiction . . . The central character, a writer of children's books, lives with her prodigious family on a romantically meadowed and wooded piece of Kentish property. Of course, real life is more complicated, "Masterly . . . A girl places some diminutive folk she's discovered into her doll house, then is imprisoned by a giant. A prince discovers that he alone has no shadow. These aren't plot points in this new work by the author ofPossession, but children's stories written by one of its protagonists, Olive Wellwood. There are, of course, actual children in the book-Olive's, with blustery banker husband Humphry; the Wellwood cousins; Julian, son of a keeper at the South Kensington Museum; Philip, the wayward boy discovered living surreptitiously in the museum, whom Olive brings home to her country estate; the family of brilliant but selfish master potter Benedict Fludd, who takes in the talented Philip as an unpaid apprentice. Like the children in Olive's stories, these children have their notions quietly disabused; one small instant-say, a parent's overheard comment-and life is changed forever. It's the late 1800s, with new ideas in the air-and it's all rushing toward World War I. Pitch perfect, stately, told with breathtakingly matter-of-fact acuteness, this is another winner for Byatt." -Barbara Hoffert,Library Journal(starred) "Ambitious, accomplished and intelligent . . . Byatt encompasses the paradigm shift from Victorian to modern England in a sweeping tale of four families. The deeper subject, however, is the complex, not always benign bond that attaches children to adults. As the novel opens in 1895, Olive Wellwood seems the model New Woman: popular author of books that reinvent fairy tales for contemporary children, tolerant wife to Fabian Society stalwart Humphry, devoted mother pregnant with her seventh baby. She takes in a working-class boy who longs to make art, and connects him with a master potter whose family belongs to the Wellwoods' progressive, artistic circle. As the narrative unfolds, we see the dark side of these idealists' lives. . . . The gothic sexual interconnections [among the characters] recall Bloomsbury, and Olive is clearly a gloss on E. Nesbit, but this is no mere roman À clef. Byatt's concern is the vast area where utopian visions collide with human nature. . . . Her adult subjects, she writes, 'saw, in a way that earlier generations had not, that children were people, with identities and desires….but they saw this out of a desire of their own for perpetual childhood.' World War I forces everyone to grow up. Byatt has painted her large cast of characters so richly that we care about all of them. In the last chapter, the survivors reunite and dream once more: 'They could make magical plays for a new generation of children.'" Kirkus Reviews "Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize,The Children's Booktells the tale of a Victorian-era children's book author who takes an artistic runaway into her London home. This act of charity, however, reveals a household that is coming apart at the seams. Byatt takes her characters into World War I, along the way showing how the world both inside and outside their home is disintegrating." -New York Post "Easily the best thing A. S. Byatt has written since her Booker-winning masterpiece,Possession. . . A panoramic cavalcade of a novel [and] a work that superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip." Peter Kemp,The Sunday Times(London) "Insistently readable . . . Brimming with intelligence and sensuality." Claire Allfree,Metro(UK) (Four stars) "Devastating." Helen Dunmore,The Times(London) "Marvelous . . . [A] sweeping yet intricate account of three middle-class English families navigating the blind turn from the 19th to the 20th ce, "Sweeping . . . At the center of this epic are the Wellwoods and their many offspring. Olive, the matriarch, is the author of children's books, vivid tales of fairies and demons, little people and spirits. . . . Along with other families, they weave in and out of one another's lives, building an edifice of domestic tranquility that increasingly becomes a house of cards. . . . Byatt rewards [the reader] by serving a literary feast, telling the story not only of these characters but of their world. She sprinkles in cameos by major figures of this era [and] sets elaborate stages for her characters in historical events . . . And she creates an alternate universe, the frightening fantasy world from which Olive draws as she writes of children who are lured away from their parents to live with magical beings, or who must descend into the depths of hidden worlds to save themselves. In the fictional world of these stories and the real world of the Wellwoods, deceptions shape young lives that grow to adulthood in a world on fire. Byatt fills a huge canvas with the political and social changes that swept the world in those years, and the devastation of war that swept its families. She elicits great compassion for the individual beings caught in that tableau. It's not a tale you'll soon forget." -Susan Kelly,USA Today "Engaging and rewarding . . . Spanning the two and a half decades before the First World War, [The Children's Book] centers on the Wellwood family, led by a banker with radical inclinations and his wife, the author of best-selling fairy tales. At their country estate, they preside over a motley brood of children and host midsummer parties for fellow-Fabians, exiled Russian anarchists, and German puppeteers. But the idyll contains dark secrets, as a potter whom the family takes in for a time discovers. Byatt is concerned with the complex, often sinister relationship between parent and child, which she explores through various works of art, using them to refract and illuminate the larger narrative." -The New Yorker "Rich, expansive . . . a portrait of a time of imminent change-the years [in England] when the Victorian golden age depreciated into Edwardian silver and then, with World War I, into an 'age of lead.' The novel's early sections take us to the country home of the Wellwoods, who welcome a lost youth into their midst. . . . These scenes contain everything any reader could ever dream of: a romantic country house; neighboring woods containing treehouses and other surprises; garden parties; puppet shows; leisurely intellectual discussions-all meticulously imagined by one of our very best contemporary writers. . . . Byatt captures the modern world's uneasy crawl from its cocoon with a commanding section on the Paris Expo of 1900 . . .[Byatt's] observation of the minutiae of moments in her characters' lives is intense. . . . If she hadn't been a writer, Byatt should have been a naturalist or a painter. At times she captures the natural world with the precision and neutrality of Constable . . . at others, you get the feeling details have been assembled with the cunning of Poussin. . . . 'Cunning' also applies to the novel's stories within stories. . . . Byatt is a spinner of multiple tales, adding gorgeous layers and dimensions to this fictional world. Splendid in themselves, these stories comment on the novel at large. [One of these stories] says the most, I think, about what Byatt achieves inThe Children's Book.Whom does this title refer to? Olive's story 'The People in the House in the House' is a sly, irony-steeped tale of a little girl who captures fairies and imprisons them in her dollhouse, only to be captured herself and imprisoned by a giant child. In watching Byat
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