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Knopf
October 2009
On Sale: October 6, 2009
688 pages
ISBN: 0307272095
EAN: 9780307272096
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Fiction Family Life
From the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, a
dazzling new novel that spans the years from the Victorian
era through World War I 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 Victoria and Albert
Museum—a 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 midsummer bacchanals the
Wellwoods host at their rambling country house—and the
private books that Olive 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 is slowly uncovered. Yet
a far larger danger awaits: the Great War lies ahead, and it
will leave no one unscathed. Suspenseful, seductive, at once
sweeping and intimate, The Children’s Book is a masterly
literary achievement by one of our most essential writers.
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