Record Number |
594020 |
ISBN |
9780701183905 (pbk.) |
Author |
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- |
Title |
The children's book : a novel / by A.S. Byatt. |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Chatto & Windus, 2009. |
Pagination etc. |
617 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents note |
Also published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 2009. |
Summary Note |
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a storybook world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries its own secrets. --- Cover. |
Subject |
Authors -- Fiction |
Children and adults -- Fiction |
Family secrets -- Fiction |
Domestic fiction |
Historical fiction. |
Shelf Location |
F BYAT |