The Children's Book

Author: A S Byatt

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General Fields

  • : $12.00 NZD
  • : 9780701183905
  • : Chatto & Windus
  • : Chatto & Windus
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  • : 0.792
  • : April 2009
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : A S Byatt
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 624
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Barcode 9780701183905
9780701183905

Description

This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of the darkness ahead.

Promotion info

By the author of Possession, a marvellous, gripping, panoramic novel of family secrets, set against a backdrop of a bohemian, artistic late Victorian and Edwardian world, about the damage wrought by writers of children's books on their children - about predators and innocents, war and peace, art and society.

Awards

Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009.